If we ignore our death, we end up just going around completely oblivious to why we do the things we do!

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

Accepting death doesn't mean you won't be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, "Why do people die?" and "Why is this happening to me?" Death isn't happening to you. Death is happening to us all.

One of the things that was most shocking to me about starting to work in the funeral industry is just how industrial the environment is.

Going around not fully believing that you're going to die is really problematic because it affects how you think about the future of the planet, about the future of your own life, about the decisions you're making.