A rather natural state of a human being is one where we want to live. We will even fight to the death for it. If someone wants to die, more often than not it suggests there is something seriously wrong.
Most of us like to fix or change things that are going wrong.
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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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