Patterns of behavior regarding birth & death (food for thought, not the truth)

One of the best examples (or the best evidence) that we (the majority of people I guess) tend to focus more on the negative than on the positive is our approach to dying and death.

When we’re approaching the old age we tend to focus on the fact that we will die soon and we become upset / melancholic. Or we speak about dying in a half-joking manner (we kinda joke about the fact that we’re so f*cking old, but hidden behind it is the fact that we’re sad, or at least we expect it to be something which…