Snoopy’s advice sucks
If you know me at all, you'll know that I suffer from a persistent, constant, never-ending existential crisis. I think about death all the time. More that you could ever imagine.In…
My son has become a non-stop death machine.
Ever since our cat, Owen, died last month, my four-year-old son Charlie has been obsessed with death. Specifically, his own death. This has not been good for me, given…
A famous writer and I agree on the worst part of sleep
Someone on Twitter sent me this poem: "Sleep. Those little slices of Death. How I loathe them." I read these three lines and thought, "Yes! I'm not alone! See? Someone…
Deep, scary, philosophical Star Trek thoughts.
Somehow a discussion about how the transporters work on Star Trek had me in an existential panic.Granted, this is easier to accomplish with me than most people, but still. This…
Charlie’s all-too familiar existentialist dilemma
My three-year-old son: "I slept so long last night, Daddy, and I didn't die." Apparently, Charlie and I share exactly the same fear as we lie down each night. Poor…
Not quite immortality, but 95 is a decent start.
If you know me at all, you know that an enormous part of my mental energy is directed at my relentless fear of death. It is more constant and overwhelming…
Two death bed mysteries and one piece of death bed advice
Why do we climb into bed at night but lie on our deathbed? Strange. Right? Speaking on deathbeds, why do so many people die in the absence of music? I…
Death bed regrets revisited: 2015
Four years ago, I responded to a list of the most frequent death bed regrets of the dying by indicating that I didn’t think any of them would be mine.…
Death helps. Steve Jobs knew this, and unlike me, he didn’t need to die in order to learn it.
Nine minutes into his famous Stanford commencement speech, Steve Jobs discussed the importance he placed on thinking about death during life: “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most…
I worry that George R.R. Martin will die before finishing his Song of Fire and Ice series, and yes, that’s not a nice thing to think.
George R.R. Martin is the author of the popular Song of Fire and Ice series which you may know better as Game of Thrones. He’s currently writing the sixth of…