This foreknowledge of mortality does not help when someone you love dies. It helps somewhat if the person who died lived a long and full life. But the person is still gone from your life forever, leaving an empty spot.
Fantasy novels tell tales of immortal elves, who live forever, unless killed in battle. The novels make it clear that the price the elves pay for a long life is having almost no children. I would not agree to immortality with no children, not that I have a choice in the matter.
We often portray the new year as a baby and the old year as an old man as a reminder about the cycle of birth, life and death.
Unfortunately, right now, all this philosophy does not make me feel better about loss. I still mourn.
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