"You are constantly aware of death, your own death and how welcome it would be.
I was acutely aware of death and taxes, but never knew how to make a bed correctly.
Like all southerners, he was keenly aware of death, but the shadow of mortality failed to darken his brilliance, and the famous slow pace of southern life only reminded Cy how much harder he had to work.
Larger than life, as this character must be, and yet also acutely aware of death, Mr Kline's Falstaff lent Jack O'Brien's solid if uninspired production a lasting air of grace.
But I do have a particular sympathy for older people — the result, maybe, of my parents' having had me late in life, and of my feeling like an old person myself, always too conscious of the ways in which my body is wearing out, always unhealthily aware of death's proximity.
Indeed Heidegger often uses the term anticipation in a narrow way, simply to mean being aware of death as a possibility.
From the moment that humans became aware of death, we desired immortality.
Rather than death's enemy, death's ambassador When Breath Becomes Air allows us to become more keenly aware of death's biological and experiential components.
