{"id":10739,"date":"2016-09-10T14:17:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T06:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=10739"},"modified":"2016-09-10T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T06:17:11","slug":"death-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2016\/09\/10\/death-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>I believe that it&#8217;s important to properly come to terms with death in order to live well. This is something that&#8217;s worth revisiting and redoing over and over again to give myself a sense of perspective, so I don&#8217;t take myself too seriously and stress myself out unnecessarily. Breathe.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re all going to die.<\/p>\n<p>Lemmy [<a href=\"http:\/\/visakanv.com\/1000\/0536-lemmy-this-is-not-a-practice-life\/\">1<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Sacks [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/31\/science\/oliver-sacks-dies-at-82-neurologist-and-author-explored-the-brains-quirks.html\">1<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Thunder [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UHWhlN5j6QY\">1<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Richard Teo<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upworthy.com\/7-powerful-photographs-of-terminally-ill-patients-living-out-their-final-wishes?c=ufb3\">7 powerful photographs of terminally ill patients living out their final wishes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/film\/being-mortal\/\">Being Mortal<\/a> [54:11]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe that it&#8217;s important to properly come to terms with death in order to live well. This is something that&#8217;s worth revisiting and redoing over and over again to give myself a sense of perspective, so I don&#8217;t take myself too seriously and stress myself out unnecessarily. Breathe. We&#8217;re&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[824],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essays"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-2Nd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}