What about dying doing something you thought you'd enjoy and wanted to do so that you didn't regret not doing it but were grossly wrong about?
(I don't think I'll ever skydive. Midlife crisis notwithstanding. I don't even like roller coasters and Ferris wheels.)
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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