What Good Is Thinking About Death. What? Did he just say he loves thinking about death? Death? That specter that we hate to consider? That death that we all fear? We all know the sadness, grief, and problems that death brings. It is especially horrible to think about our loved ones who have died. We invent ways to avoid saying the word. He bought the farm. He passes over. He got smoked. He is at rest. He bit the dust. I have a modest proposal. How about you never use a word or phrase to describe death again, without using the word dead or dying? Because, I am never more alive than when I think about death. It is something that is going to happen, isn’t it? It is something that will happen to everyone we know, everyone we have loved, and everyone we will ever know. So, let’s put it out there, on the table. Let’s consider it every morning when we wake up. Hey, pilgrim. You might die today. Isn’t that great? You aren’t dead right now, are you? So, for at least the next few hours, you get to drink your coffee, take a shower, make love to your significant other, get dressed in whatever you want, walk out the front door, turn the key in the ignition of your favorite car, listen to the hum of the engine, look at the sky and the trees, and do whatever you want or need to do. What a gift! Isn’t death great? If focuses the mind wonderfully. Now, repeat after me, Memento Mori. I might die today. That makes me very happy to be alive.