Longevity

How long is life? Rather than approach the question from the natural inclination of "long" as length in its entire spectrum, approach it as long. Does a human life maybe extend too far, overstaying its welcome for both this worldly latice and its host, the person who might have not necessarily deserved death sooner than it was granted, but for whom their stay was prolonged? Of course, anyone attached to life (I propose this is just about everyone) would say a life extends as far as it can, maybe even that death comes no later or sooner than its perfect deadline. Could death, the definition of punctual, be late?

And my willingness to die might give me an approximate time of death.

If it were down to allowing women and children off a sinking ship at my expense, I think I would have the capacity to calm my thinking, appreciate the flattest expanse that is my own life, and willingly wade into the water. I can imagine that moment now, but I also cannot.

Since we do not know what death is, it is illogical for us fear it. It might be very nice. -Guildenstern