Death is difficult to wrestle with.
Whether it's family, friends, plants, or strangers, the loss of life is a heavy weight.
It reminds us of our temporal existence.
The stoics regularly reflected upon death as a way to embrace the reality of it and use the truth of life’s inevitable end to live a meaningful life while still alive.
"Death - there is nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it - the fear of it".
- Seneca
I wrote Power Acronym 106: D.I.R.T. to capture these ideas and reflect upon them myself.
Power Acronym 106: D.I.R.T.
D - Detachment from Life's Transience
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
- Marcus Aurelius
I - Inner Acceptance of Mortality
"Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day... The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each day is never short of time."
- Seneca
R - Resilience in the Face of Loss
"Misfortune nobly born is good fortune."
- Marcus Aurelius
T - Transcendence through Contemplation
"He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how."
- Seneca
What will people say about you at your funeral?
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