Death is a Deadline

Why do we do things?

Aside from the benefits of whatever task we're trying to complete, why do we get out of bed and decide to help? What makes us act so urgently in our lives, hoping to find love, a job, a home, a family?

Death.

Without death, motivation would be almost non-existent. We could put things off for hundreds of years, and never complete them, because there would be no stakes.

Death is a blessing. It is what makes our lives meaningful, because we can die knowing that we've accomplished something. Like the deadline on the ten-page paper you haven't started yet but will inevitably finish the night before it's due, death keeps us motivated. It reminds us that there is a limit to what we can do, so we have to make every moment count.