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…
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…
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 that I…
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 else hates sleep, too!…
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…
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 boy.
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 than…
Why do we climb into bed at night but lie on our death bed? Strange. Right? Speaking on death beds, why do so many people die in the absence of music? I…
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.…
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…
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…