Unto Death: The Folly of a Naturalistic Legacy | #39
It is unbelievable that you’re still here, still working, striving, persevering, resisting and most importantly, and the least surprisingly, still degrading physically; dying. Day by day, moment by moment, from the first line of this piece to the last, you have gotten closer to your demise. Every year you pass the date of your death without even realising, it is there in the vicinity, it is the other half of Ben Franklin’s famed quote. “Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes” Be it for yourself, your pets, your parents, or the community around...