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As Oswald Spengler so aptly said, the only thing that cannot be taken away from us is an honorable death. And yet, that seems to be one of the rarest things in the world.
Sprawling materialism probably has a lot to do with pathetically clinging onto life like it's the only thing that matters.
We prefer kneeling and crying and vegetating over a good honerable death, looking the reaper right in the eye without blinking and flinching, giving our life for something that matters.
Maybe we are living too long and are getting too old for that. Who is to say that that's a good thing?
Maybe you are better off in the afterlife if your soul didn't spent too much time in an already rotting body.