Coming to terms with our mortality and accepting life as a nonpermanent journey can be a sizable psychological undertaking. There simply are not many options when we consider our death and dying.

Even with some measure of acceptance, there’s the mystery of life after death and a host of emotions accompanying our acceptance. We may feel fear , regret, worry, and sadness.

Then, there’s the second option: denial .

There seems to be a popular illusion: The more we deny death, the more life we have. The deluded thinking suggests that if we have less of one (death), then we have more of the other (life). Or, if we simply pretend that death isn’t an option, then it might go away.

The attractive deception is based on the belief that life and death are unrelated. This notion easily morphs

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