"If people lived for ever - if they never get any older - if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy - do you think they'd bother to think hard about things, the way we're doing now? I mean, we think about just about everything, more or less - philosophy, psychology, logic. Religion. Literature. I think, if there were no such thing as death, that complicated thoughts and ideas like that would never come into the world." (..)
"I mean...this is what I think, but...people have to think seriously about what it means for them to be alive here and now because they know they're going to die sometime. Right? Who would think about what it means to be alive if they were just going to go on living for ever? Why would they bother. Or even if they should bother, they'd probably just reckon, 'Oh, well, I've got plenty of time for that. I'll think about it later.' But we can't wait till later. We've got to think about it right this second. (..) Nobody knows what's going to happen. So we need death to make us evolve. That's what I think. Death is huge, bright thing, and the bigger and brighter it is, the more we have to drive ourselves crazy thinking about things."
Tell me, have you been thinking about your own death? About how would you die down there/whenever where? |