Jim O’Brien: Live a better life by improving your relationship with death
I prefer to treat death like someone with whom I have a nodding acquaintance – I know he’s there but I won’t be inviting him to join me for a pint any time soon
‘Perhaps we have to keep death at one remove or we would live lives of fright, paralysed by the prospect of the inevitable’. Image: Getty
I haven’t a great reputation for timekeeping — some people even refer to me as ‘the late Jim O’Brien’ — but I always get there.
At least I have managed it so far. There will come a time when I will be the late me, when I won’t have any more time to keep. ‘The late’ is an epithet that will attach to all our names at some stage, nothing is surer.
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