Wisdom from Tyler Blanski

Death keeps us moral. The fact that we die strongly suggests that our choices have consequences, that there is judgment. And it seems that if we pretend that death is not a part of life, we will never be ready to understand that dying is actually living, much less that death is not the end. For we are born toward death, and in living our dying is already underway. Remembering death helps us to find our place in the passing of generations. Caring for the dying and burying the dead, especially when linked with conceiving new life and caring for children, can only teach us how to live. The denial of death and children has never made a community healthy.

—TYLER BLANSKI
from An Immovable Feast: How I Gave Up Spirituality for a Life of Religious Abundance