Essay: Why it Feels to Me Like so Many are Dying Young

On aging and memento mori

Photo by Ahmed Adly on Unsplash

I recently learned that an old acquaintance of mine suddenly and tragically lost her husband. I never met him, but from the photos she shared, he looked young, happy, and healthy. Possibly younger than me. Too young, anyway.

I know things like this happen all the time, and I know that social media can distort our sense of p…