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The Beauty Of Death – How To Think About Your Mortality

Pursuit of Wonder | March 24, 2026



The concept of death is incredibly difficult to appreciate. But perhaps a life without it would be incredibly difficult to appreciate.

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  8. @suewright3345

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    I feel that death would be easier if we learnt to let go of the materialism of this world, rather, to go inside and connect to our connection with the source and learn how to use our gifts that we don't realise that we have because of being bombarded with technology and busy ness…❤

  11. @chinookvalley

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    I have watched many deaths. Deaths of animals, of friends, of family. Some die in fear, some die with pleasure and dignity. I've had dogs that died in my arms, friends and family, too. To be looking into the eyes of someone dying is an unusual gift, of sorts. I was holding my dad's hand, when in mid-conversation when he opened his eyes wide (which turned from hazel to the most amazing aqua blue), raised his hand to the ceiling, and with great enthusiasm said, "Oh, God!" and was gone.

  15. @AnthyMelange

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    I don't like this video. I'd like to learn how NOT to fear death and see it as a beautiful thing to accept and embrace. The title of this video is all wrong and needs to change.

  19. @scott-qk8sm

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    I enjoyed most of my life, but I didn't accomplish much of anything, never found my calling. I now grow tired of dealing with it all. I look forward to death and truly hope it does not lead to more life and consciousness for me somewhere else. I'll be content just being forever unaware of anything again like I was before my birth. I hope the evidence for reincarnation isn't true….

  20. @Terran-Lord

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    This video was well made but I strongly disagree with much of it. In the main analogy, the speaker says that we would not want to play a game without an end point. I have played many games that do not have end points and they have been some of the best. Conan exiles, or other sandbox games with good building mechanics for example. You could also consider PVP games, where each match has an end, but the game does not and you just do more and more matches, like playing a sport.

    It is still a great analogy, but it counters the speaker in showing that we can ever make more and more goals for ourselves inside of games, or even play a match of a game for years upon years without getting bored. I haven't played League of Legends in many years, however, that game is one example of a PVP game that millions of people continue to play to this day even well past a decade, and the game has hardly changed. If we enjoy something in life, we will gladly do it again and again.

    I would never get bored of taking walks with my wife and young daughter, or painting miniature figures and using them in stories I make up. I could list countless other examples but I am sure many people would also want to spend as many days as possible with their loved ones and enjoying life together.

    There may come a point where people decide they have had enough, but I would venture to guess that point comes after hundreds of thousands of years if we do it right. There is so much to do and learn out there, and as I pointed out, we don't tire easily of the hobbies and activities we invest in even after we have mastered our craft.

    Final point, the speaker states that if there was no end, we wouldn't want to develop exciting technology and create fascinating art, as examples. This is rediculous to say the least. People don't do those things because they are going to die, they do them because they enjoy them and see the value those things bring to the world, regardless of the creators mortaility. I understand people want to leave a legacy, as part of the way of giving more meaning to their lives, but the things we do to create value and bring us a sense of purpose… they help guide us and fulfill us while we are alive as well. The people we know from history and to this day that create amazing things would continue to do so whether they would die tomorrow, 10 years from now 100 years from now and so on.

    I am not afraid of dying, but I happened to be pondering on all of the things I wish I could live to do. As a 34 year old dad of a 2 year old daughter, I won't get to spend as much time with my future grandkids as I would want, and likely never even meet my great grandkids. I will want to die within about 40 years because my body will become broken, poor functioning, and painful. My mind will have forgotten much of my life and I will have lost much of myself by then, if I can even remember my family members (hopefully avoiding Alzheimer's). I will likely die feeling great about the life I lived and the people and things I invested my time and love into. That won't change that I will still want more.

    Thinking about being forced to live forever is aweful, and I would hate being stuck living forever…. but my wife and I have a saying "always one more day", because when you ask yourself, "What if I could die peacefully as soon as I was ready, and every night I had the chance to stop existing. Would I ever reach the point where I wouldn't want just one more day with the love of my life?" Our answer is no. Imagining being forced to live forever is horrible, but imagining just one more day with my favorite person, I think I could continue saying yes to that forever.

  23. @romanianisraeli

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    I am not scared of dying, I am so eager to go to heaven to see Jesus. The more stressful this life the more the less I want to go on and it seams excrutiatingly long.

  25. @mountainmover777

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    Philippians 3:13-15

    Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
    I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
    Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

  26. @GQmoney4

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    I really appreciate this video. Thank you very much. I’ve seen three different ways on how to handle this. Spiritually. Realistically. And just having acceptance.acceptance of it.

  28. @skai1324

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    I do not want the endpoint when i play game i want to play it for as long as posible or not end at all because why do you want good thing to end? (this video does not help me at all 😭)

  29. @BennyMcGhee

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    Bullions and billions of years before us and billions and billions to come after we die. How lucky are we to be alive at this very point on the timeline. And that is insane to think about—you can only be alive to know you are alive. When you are dead you know nothing because you are incapable of knowing anything. In that way, you can only exist.

  30. @danielschouteeten9421

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    What you're saying is at least mostly true. I'm just wondering if we couldn't play the game for ever, just for the sake of playing the game. Not because it eventually ends. Also, many games have quests, levels, … Great game developers keep the game fresh with nice updates. Couldn't that be theoretically the same with life? Because as you grow and learn possibilities keep increasing. So couldn't you keep exploring all those possibilities?

  35. @nodiggity8577

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    I'm definitely not afraid especially since all I do is have suffering and mental illness that is too crazy to even explain…..I hope it's the part of a spiritual awakening or something because I can't take this shit then I worry about going to hell all the time and all kinds of crazy stuff

  44. @louisgalfilla8427

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    The Beauty of death for me is being a low income marginalised man of colour who has been opressed by fascists with a superiority complex and power. Dying and not having to accept the their corruption and diverse doctrines as the truth. Because when i die the truth will begin to hunt them. After im gone i want them to picture me and george floyd and emmit till and khalid muhammad all smiling because we are not hateful people all we wanted was freedom but the fascists outlawed freedom for blacks to make a life for ourselves but the most amazing thing about dying is you not having any power to force drugs or homosexual lifestyles on us most of all even though my life is so difficult im so glad im not you!!!! the most unattractive thing about you is your lack of empathy your ego and avris. You have no character You are a character with no empathy and plenty of self love im sure if you penis was big enough you would make lust yourself.

  46. @alexanderludwigthaddeusvandarc

    March 24, 2026 at 12:09 am

    once my life goal thats make a corporation that could create enormous income for my family. then i accept death and embrace it. plus i am a suicidal, and have major depression and anxiety disorder too. death is a gift for me, death is a door to unknown universe, or just emptiness and blank. but if grim reaper knock door tomorrow even though i still just a halfway to achieve my goal, i would accept it with gratefulness even i would try to invite and try to call the grim reaper to come with suicide, don't know when and where i am will die, maybe tomorrow, next month or next year or maybe after few minutes i comment on this video. But one thing is a sure and undebatable, life could be bless for someone but its could curse for some other like me. Nobody ever decided where, when, and why he or she born.

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