Death & Meaning

Only death brings the problem of meaning into proper focus. Meditation on the reality of death is necessary to truly understand meaning. Only those who have been close to death, or lost someone close to them, can grasp this fully. For it is the contribution we make to a person's subjective lifeworld that constitutes our sense of meaningfulness. The loss of that contribution in a wisp of smoke challenges that sense at every level. All that 'meaning' ground into nothingness....doesn't seem to mean much of anything at all.