You had an epiphony! to truly understand life you have to except death as a part of it. It is an unfortunate truth that until most people have a near death experiance that the thought that one day you will die never occurs to them.It is only when they have this epiphony that they truly accept what life is, Life is a gift that at any day can be taken away. Here is a piece of wisdom someone once shared with me "I learnt early in life the sooner you except death as a part of it you are free from all bonds,it is the reason why I live the way I do it is also the reason why people tend to have a problem with me. I make no excuses for what I have done or said in my life as this is what I truly believe. Everything I have done in my life I have no regrets over as it makes me who I am today. The fact that one day I will die does not scare me as i have already except death as a part of my life.When we are born part of the contract of life is death the sooner you come to that realization the sooner you truly start to live."