How death life makes sense

May 21 – In the past few days, two famous people (one very famous, one relatively) have announced that they have cancer (interestingly, it is the same form, ie prostate cancer).

On May 16, the former President of the United States, Joe Biden, 82, announced that he was diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer that has spread to his bones.

A few days later Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert Comic Strip told everyone on his live stream that he was also diagnosed with prostate cancer, in which his bones were also metastasized. The 67 -year -old Adams said that his life expectancy was “maybe this summer”.

I can't deny that I'm more than a little sad.

I have occasionally been a listener of Adams' Livestream, known as Coffee with Scott Adams.

I have found his thoughts on politics and the US culture revealing and humorous. I also read some of his books that concentrate on corporate life through failure and so on. I even checked the latest via mind hacking, Free your brain newlast year.

However, two things that Adams said in the latest livestream really stood out.

In accordance with his breathtaking mood, he said that Without death, life has no sense.

They are our limits that make our lives meaningful. Knowing that we will not be in this world forever makes every moment much more precious.

Scott Adams, the Creator of “Dilbert”, the Cartoon character, who tenses the absurdities of corporate life, poses with two “Dilbert” farmers at a party on January 8, 1999 in Pasadena, California -Reuters Pic

Similarly, it is as if you only have two hours before your spouse flies for a trip abroad. This makes each of these 120 minutes in the Café Café really harmful.

When I lost my wife a year ago, I feel completely.

Every day since the funeral I missed my wife and I think of the last few days she was with us. These last meals outside, the last plant she bought, the last film she saw (it was Twister). These few days retrospectively take an estimated meaning about the words.

As Adams reminds us, we shouldn't wait until a cancer diagnosis or a sudden death before treating every day as if it were our last.

Grand Master Oogway from Kungfu Panda Fame explained: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, so it says the present.”

But how many of us live a generous equipment today, a wonderful gift? Why are many of us still annoying and still worrying about trivial things around the clock?

I want to end with something that Adams said that it has become viral. I assume that this last line (deliberately repeated by Adams) is a last necessary memory to fully live our lives:

“I have to say that everyone has to die as far as I know. And it is a kind of civilized that they know how long they put together their affairs and make sure they have said goodbye and have done all the things they have to do.

“(This cancer diagnosis) is also good in that you have enough time while your brain is still working to complete things.

“I can see in the comments that some of them have a difficult time with it, but think about it … nothing takes forever. Nothing takes forever.”

Thanks for everything, Scott.