Embracing death, your death!

"Essentially, Heidegger wants you to see that you shouldn’t treat death as an event that’s coming closer to you with every passing moment, like a train slowly approaching from the distance. Thinking this way has the effect of putting distance between you and your death, making it something foreign and external to you and to what it means to live your life now, for you to exist. It’s inauthentic because: It makes death an external event instead of an internal way of being. It makes death a passive happening as opposed to an active way in which you can actually live. Authentically embracing death doesn’t mean waiting for the event to occur; it means running toward it. Only by taking the bull by the horns and taking an active stance on death can you live a life that’s truly yours. Odd as it may sound, you have to learn to make death into a way to live."