On mortality

One of the few concepts in the world which every religion, creed, group etc agrees on is that our time on this planet is limited.

Whatever happens to you after that, the stories on that vary from person to person, group to group, but the inevitability of your physical body's limitation is agreed upon by everyone.

Yet, no one wants to talk about it, to contemplate, how awareness of one's mortality has influenced whole of human civilisation.

Even the oldest known literature, Epic of Gilgamesh, is a story about a man/demi-god, wanting to conquer death and achieve immortality, fails to do so.

Life and death have existed side by side closely since forever.
It was just more visible before modernity, because of less advanced medicine, less tamed nature etc.
Today? Well, its the last topic on most minds.

Hence, for this meetup, our topic would be simply, "On mortality".

I have found a cozy little cafe (The cafe has great homemade cakes by the way) near a peaceful cemetery.

Why a cemetery you may ask? And how can it be "peaceful"?

A cemetery may remind you of decay and depression, but instead, it has life all around. Small insects running their society, (if you look closely 😏), flowers, trees, melodic chirping of birds, and the beautiful sunlight tearing through the trees.
It has that contrast of and life and death coexisting so close to one another, which today's human's living in so much safety and certainty mostly get repelled away from and hence avoid discussing about it, is the major theme of this discussion.