“Holding death close so I remember to live”.
Kelly McMasters, writing in the New York Times:
I wrote my obituary last week. I often do so once a year; it has become a kind of ritual.
…I’m grateful my mother brought the practice of looking at death this way to the dinner table all those decades ago and continued to do so through all the stories of her dying patients after that. Just as my aunt taught me the value of keeping a journal, my mother’s obituary exercise taught me the practice and value of holding death close, so I could remember to live.
