The Power of Getting in Touch with Your Own Mortality

“But in this world, nothing can be certain except death and taxes.”
— BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

I was lucky, in a strange sort of way, in that one of my best friends died when I was in my early thirties. He was a world-class athlete and only 42 years old. It quickly brought home to me, when I was at an age when few people think of death, how fickle life…