Friday, May 2, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Top Five Regrets of the Dying<\/em>, the author tells of her experiences in palliative care. Some families don\u2019t tell their loved ones of their terminal status. One family simply lied and said to their family member, \u201cYou\u2019ll be better in no time!\u201d This, of course, was not only futile, but cruel. What\u2019s even crueler is that we are oblivious to our own ephemerality. The roots of oblivious means \u201cforget.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n At some level, oblivion is forgetfulness. We prefer to turn away from truth – purposefully forget about our own funerals. Our partners die. Our children die. Our pets die. Our careers die. Our hopes and dreams die. Our skills die. I\u2019ve known many musicians who keep their careers on respirators. Holding dead things – how sad! Michelangelo\u2019s Pieta is sad because Mary can\u2019t let go of the corpse. If she would let go and look past. We can get past death, because we haven\u2019t looked at it yet. We avert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We have overlooked our fragility, lack of control, vulnerability, ephemerality, and utter ignorance. The obvious is that a dead body decays faster than one that is alive, but both are wasting away. The individual is a flimsy disguise. The stories and stuff do not protect, neither does God or religion. The church, the government, and your investments are vulnerable. How are you going to get away from Truth? It\u2019s obvious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vulnerable means susceptible. One definition of susceptible is capable. Capable of what? Dying, destroying, birthing, sustaining, all of it. If the universe is susceptible, then what or who is the enemy? Whatever is responsible for life is responsible for destruction of said life. How then are you really vulnerable or real? Death is as easy as falling off a log if you ponder. Surely living is equally as effortless, but not if you\u2019re oblivious to The Obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Friday, May 2, 2025 In Top Five Regrets of the Dying, the author tells of her experiences in palliative care. Some families don\u2019t tell their loved ones of their terminal status. One family simply lied and said to their family member, \u201cYou\u2019ll be better in no time!\u201d This, of course, was not only futile, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4710,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/4710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymorningmotivator.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}