Death

Post-Enlightenment thinking can't deal with death yet it is the only certainty we all face. Modern philosophy is based on empiricism and reason. You cannot define, categorise and explain something that you cannot fully report on. How is it after you die?

Dealing with the death of a loved one is looking into infinity, and an infinity defined by loss, absence and despair. There isn't an equation or a report that can deal with that. Ever.

You experience it relatively – in front of you is an infinite darkness, so what are you relative to that? Anything relative to infinity is nothing. You stand on the edge of a cliff above an infinite abyss and there is nothing inside you.

Your reason is gone as you can't explain this. There is no plan, no design, no route through this.

The only way forward is to step back from the precipice and walk along the edge of the emotional abyss until the infinity fades, a path appears on the other side and you can get close enough to that future that you can step across.

The one thing you cannot do, you must not do is let the emptiness consume you, because then you will float down into the abyss yourself. That is an easy path and A quick one. But there is nothing for you in that abyss. The future lies on the other side of infinity – an infinity that only fades with the healing of time.