Perhaps Losing a parent in my early teens familiarised me with the pain of forever losing a loved one, and absorbed the fear of Death. It helped me realise that death is harder on those surviving than the dead themselves. 

I have experienced the profound shock of seeing healthy young people die, as well as the abject agony of watching ailing old people dragging their years with an absent quality of life. Death can strike anyone at any time.

Like they say, ‘always wear clean underwear because you don’t know when you’ll be in an accident’, I suppose we must always live our best life because we can’t say when it will end.