Life & Death.

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Life and death are something everyone thinks about.
Life itself is easy to see through our daily relationships, joys, and struggles.

But death is different because no one truly knows what comes after it.

That uncertainty naturally brings fear.

Last week, my husband suddenly received a message from his 77-year-old third sister.

She was in a hospice ward with terminal colon cancer and had been told she only had about two months left.

At our family gathering just months ago, none of us had any idea.

Among the eight siblings in his family, she was the one I felt closest to.

When we visited her, her youngest son, who is a doctor, had left his work to stay faithfully by his mother’s side, wanting to repay her lifelong love and care.

What moved me most was her calmness.
She seemed peaceful, as if she had already accepted the natural flow of life and death.

I often say that when my own life ends, I simply hope people will remember me as a decent and kind person.

At that moment, I felt my sister-in-law was already showing what that kind of life looks like.

Strangely, the fear of death also gives meaning to life.
Because life is limited, I try to live more sincerely and appreciate people more deeply.

I also wonder how great geniuses like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein felt when they faced death.

Even after achieving so much, many geniuses believed they had only begun to understand the universe.

Perhaps this is because the more they understood, the more immense the unknown became before them.
The deeper their insight, the wider the unexplored universe appeared to be.

Their bodies died, but their ideas remained.

Maybe even great geniuses stood somewhere between fear and acceptance in the face of death.

Because in the end, they were human too.

Knowing great truths probably did not make saying goodbye to loved ones any less painful.

That is why I believe life is not about living long, but about living deeply while we are here.