Death as Your Advisor
Michael Ra Bouchard, M.A., Ph.D.
Certified Sex Therapist & Marriage/Relationship Counselor; Founder of Aloha Sexual Health & Happiness Counseling, LLC, Worldwide Telephone Counseling- "A Place of Hope"
Dear friends around the world,
In this time of global quarantine and widespread panic due to the coronavirus—as of yesterday blamed for 100,000 reported deaths worldwide—it can actually be beneficial for us to reflect upon our inevitable demise, even as we vigorously take every step possible to stave off its appearance.
From this standpoint, to follow is a short excerpt from my 2015 long-read article, "Death as Your Advisor" which can be read here on Linked In by clicking the link to my Article Archive located at the bottom of this page.
I hope you find these thoughts helpful in keeping your perspective while holding tightly to hope for a better future—no matter how dire or dark things may appear to be at times in the interval—until finally this pandemic has run its course allowing us all to resume our lives, in ways both old and new.
Excerpt:
"It is thought that by actively contemplating our eventual demise we make death real and present which, in turn, leads to habituation that transcends our fright of it. It is said that when we deprive death of its strangeness, we deprive death of its greatest advantage over us: We get used to it.
While none of us really knows how many days we have left, or what those days will bring, it becomes oddly comforting—and deeply empowering—to look our mortality in the eye. For within its murky gaze bides “the inevitable hour” that awaits each and every one of us at the end of all earthly glory. Being reminded of our unavoidable date with death actually makes us more likely to make better decisions about how we live our life.
As timelessly observed over 2000 years ago by Roman philosopher Seneca, "Learning how to live takes a whole life, and, which may surprise you more, it takes a whole life to learn how to die." Possessing a deeper awareness of death changes the way we live, and is what begets real life by helping to keep everything we experience in perspective."
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To read this timely article in its entirety, please scroll down now to the bottom of this page and click on the "See all 23 articles" link to visit my Articles Archive, then scroll down the list of articles till you come to the link for "Death As Your Advisor"dated November 1, 2015.
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Simply copy and paste the below Linked In link into your browser:
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Keep well,
Dr. Michael
954-870-8720
4 年CDC has hospitals and Doctors list COVID-19 as cause of death: 1. Patient tests + for the virus even if they have other diseases 2. Cause of death can be listed as COVID-19 without testing. 3. Deaths at home [20%] cause of death is listed as what the family says. 4. Deaths at nursing homes [20%] are listed as COVID-19. 5. Deaths reported by EMTs and ambulance personnel, if the patient had to be intubated before arriving at the hospital, are listed as COVID-19 cause of death, regardless of medical history. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=_5wn1qs_bBk