What the ancient world can teach us about death - West Hawaii Today

What the ancient world can teach us about death - West Hawaii Today

I first became fascinated by death when I was 8 and my mummy took me to the British Museum to look at the mummies. When, at a slightly older age, I began to study death and the ancient world, what struck me most, despite many fascinating cultural variants, was the uniformity, and limitation of the human imagination over the millennia vis-à-vis what to expect when we’re gone.

Oprah on the Lessons Death Can Teach Us

“Grappling with our mortality can help us better appreciate the time we have.”