Are you fearful of death? Leonard Cohen: “There’s so little that you can do about [death]… We’ve got to live our lives as if they’re not going to end immediately. So we have to live under those – some people might call them illusions.”

Allan Showalter

Are you fearful of death?

 

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Everyone has to have a certain amount of anxiety about the conditions of one’s death. The actual circumstances, the pain involved, the affect on your heirs. But there’s so little that you can do about it. It’s best to relegate those concerns to the appropriate compartments of the mind and not let them inform all your activities. We’ve got to live our lives as if they’re not going to end immediately. So we have to live under those – some people might call them illusions.

 

 

Leonard Cohen

 

From ‘I’m blessed with a certain amnesia’ by Jian Ghomeshi. The Guardian: July 9, 2009.

I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally posted Apr 23, 2013 at DrHGuy.com.

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