“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” ~Marcus Aurelius Death makes everyone a philosopher. Whether we become better philosophers or not depends upon how we live in response to death. Do we balk or do we gawk? Do we cry or do we laugh? Do we cringe or do we ‘rage, rage against the dying of the light’? Do we refine and discover Soul or do we remain unrefined and cling to the Ego? As Epictetus advised, “Be either a philosopher or o
