We’re all going to die

A physician giving a research presentation said, “Despite available treatments, all patients with Exceedingly-Rare Syndrome* eventually die.” He paused after this, as a thought just occurred to him, and added, “Well, we all die eventually.”

Thinking about death is encouraging

I had a bit of a bad week. I’ve been sick and I felt as if I wasn’t firing on all cylinders. I had read about people with COVID having ‘brain fog’ and I did not understand what that meant. I didn’t have COVID but now I think I get the idea. It’s just being slower to remember or understand things. It sucks.

At first, I felt a little bad about not representing myself at my best, but it occurred to me that probably no one gave it a second thought. Yes, meetings are recorded these days but I’m pretty sure that’s only to protect organizations in case of a lawsuit. Honestly, in your entire life have you ever gone back and watched a Zoom recording of a meeting?

If I died tomorrow, every committee I’m on, every contract I have, they would replace me the next week and forget me the week after that. As my husband pointed out, Queen Elizabeth was the queen of England for decades and the month after the funeral she was out of the news.

If people aren’t talking about a queen after she dies, do you really think they are…