Thank you, I have reblogged your post. Very worth reading.

The search for "the cause of dying" is, if you look at it on a different perspective level, basically pointless. If you replace "cell death" with the word "death", what thoughts does this release?

The cause of death is living.

Instead of feverishly researching the micro-causes in Petri dishes, just as we fear macro-events (volcanic eruptions, comets, solar rays, etc.) and try to predict them, we no longer care about the simplest things.

To follow the basic rule that a sick person is in a transitional stage to get better or to die when his time has come. As long as my own death is not right at my door, the potential of life is always there. I will know when it is about to end.

The potential diminishes with advancing age. Nothing complicated about it. We all know it.

The ongoing preoccupation with immortality, with perfection and rejection of our biological body striving towards death is a development that has probably always taken place in emerging and waning movements. Right now we are experiencing hysteria on a massive scale alongside fatalism, extremism alongside ignorance.

Stupidly, the most fearful people seem to be those who wield the most power. As you say, they feed on the many who subjugate them to protect and nurture them like a baby in utero. Their "children" sacrifice themselves for them because they attach importance to the cult of sacrifice, I think.

I enjoy your descriptions of everyday encounters. The thing with the waitress: spontaneous and beautiful :)