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We talk a lot about health. Diets. Exercise. Supplements. But almost never about the one thing that may influence our wellbeing more than anything else: our relationship with death.
This week’s film explores how denying our mortality changes the way we treat our bodies, our minds, and even the planet that sustains us.
Key Ideas From the Film
• When a society treats death as a mistake, it creates a healthcare system obsessed with postponing the inevitable while neglecting the experience of living.
• Forgetting we are mortal leads to self-neglect: we postpone nourishment, take our bodies for granted and behave as if we have endless tomorrows.
• Death denial fuels anxiety and depression because unspoken fear never disappears, it mutates into anxiety.
• Remembering our edges can bring clarity: we care more for our bodies, our relationships, and the earth when we accept our time is limited.
• Mortality isn’t the enemy of health. It is the reason health matters.
“Modern medicine is a negation of death.” (Ivan Illich)
Try This Today
Ask yourself this question: When I remember that my time is finite, what one healthy or honest choice would I make today?
Try it. Even if it is small. One choice made with awareness has more impact than twenty made from habit.
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Please join me at 4pm UK time on 16th December for the re-scheduled Live Video call with author, ceremonialist, celebrant and ritual weaver Isla Macleod to discuss ‘How Life’s Cycles Help Us Live with Purpose’. You will receive an email alert to join before the call, but here is the link.
