Because the truth is that none of us know. We talked a lot that night, in the dark, lying side by side in her bed, about how it's true, people die, and it would be wrong of me to deny that, or even to promise her that I will live a long life. but I don't want to die, and I don't want YOU to die."ĭeep existential thoughts for a ten year old. And then there's the whole pandemic, which finally motivated me and my husband to write our wills, because we realized that it's actually possible that both of us might die at the same time.Īnd then the other night, my daughter confessed to me that she doesn't like to be alone at night, because she starts, in her words, "remembering that I'm a person. I've been thinking a lot about that recently, for a lot of reasons: a while ago, one of my best friends from college - with whom I was woefully incommunicative - effectively dropped dead when his heart stopped beating, and in a stroke of amazing luck, it started again, but now he has a pacemaker. And their motto, printed on every napkin, was "Life is Uncertain: Eat Dessert First." They had a vast glass case full of cakes of all sorts, and I loved going there, not for the food, but for the treats in fact, the menu they'd hand you had the desserts listed first. When I was a college student, there was a pub-like place at the edge of campus where my parents would sometimes take me on weekends when they'd visit.
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