Ok, so I'm going to try to explain this as best I can. It's been brought to my attention that I apparently have a strange outlook on life/death, so I'd love opinions!
My attitude is that I'm not scared of death. It happens to us all eventually and I try to live each day well/fully and embrace being alive rather than worrying about dying.
I find it difficult to empathise with people who are overly dramatic about death. For example, elderly relatives who dress like they're in their 20's with dyed hair and lots of makeup suddenly developing an irrational sense of their own mortality as people their age start dying.
It's a given. We all die and if you're in your 70's/80's , what do you eclecticism? We're not immortal!!!
I do think that it seems to be hitting people I know who are desperately clinging onto their youth a lot harder. Like the makeup, unnatural hair colour and this whole younger illusion has not prepared them mentally for the reality if their actual age...
From what I've seen, those people who live a more authentic life where they are happy in their own skin and aren't trying to be something they're not seem to be more at ease with the whole thing...
I don't feel my outlook is strange. I think it's realistic!