JULIA ECHEVARRIA

How do you want to die?

I think the question, “How do you want to die?” is exactly as sensible as “What do you want to be when you grow up?” While the latter gets asked and answered umpteen times throughout childhood and then, only half-jokingly, into adulthood, the former never gets addressed. Not everyone will get married, not everyone will have children, but everyone will die at some point; and yet, in general, people will invest a whole lot more time and effort into planning their hypothetical wedding and naming their hypothetical kids than they will in thinking about their ideal deathbed. Why?