I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.

Shannon Hale
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this....
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this....
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this....
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this....
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When a person is born, they are vulnerable and fragile. As a person grows, their body becomes stronger and more resistant to injury. Yet, as a person gets older, those same mechanisms that protect them from injury also cause pain. When a person faces death, the fear of their own mortality makes them feel vulnerable and fragile.

In fact, it’s as though for the first time they have entered into the world of being alive. They have entered into the harsh reality that even being alive can cause pain. It’s as though being alive has made their body ache for the very first time.

Source: Book Of A Thousand Days

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