Johann Hari has another thought-provoking column in today’s Independent. This time, his theme is how we have forgotten how to face death. It’s worth reading. And he has given me a reminder that I really should invest in a copy of Julian Barnes’ "Nothing to be Afraid of" by quoting Barnes:
"It is difficult for us to contemplate, fixedly, the possibility, let alone the certainty, that life is a matter of cosmic hazard, its fundamental purpose mere self-perpetuation, that it unfolds in emptiness, that our planet will one day drift in frozen silence, and that the human species will completely disappear and not be missed, because there is nobody and nothing out there to miss us. That is what growing up means. And it is frightening prospect for a race that has for so long relied on its own invented gods for consolation."
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