This knowledge once again stresses the importance of choice in the planning and living of life. Death encourages action. We only have so much time left, so let's get going. Death encourages risk. The downest of the downside in any risk is death.
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
Death reminds us how much we owe the past and the future. Those who went before us knew they wouldn't be here forever, and yet they left us a rich legacy. We, too, have many gifts to leave the generations yet unborn. Death says we only have a certain number of years in which to appreciate the past and to leave our gift for the future. When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.