Everything Dies

A thing that nearly every person starts to come to terms with as they age, is that Everything Dies and what it means to them and their existence.  The Death of loved ones literally leaves pieces of ourselves which are missing and which can never to be replaced.  The parts of our minds that holds the memories of that person is all we have left of them in this world leaving us with nothing but shadows and echoes of the persons portion of our own lives. As I find myself finding I now have had many loved ones pass, some with great memories left behind, others with sadness of how they lived their lives and the potential they had in their lives.  The one thing I love about this song by Type O Negative is that it both captures the idea of how it makes those feel who are left behind and the depressing thing it can be.  Age and experiences like this make you realize how important it is to make the moments with those you love count, and to make your own memory be a good one for them.
It is part of nature that all things must come to an end in our lives and the lives of our loved ones.  It is the thought that their will be an end that it many ways can make people strive to make their lives something to be remembered.  We are after all in this world just the memories we leave with those around us, and many times most of what is left of us in this world are those memories of things we have taught people good and bad which they in turn teach others. It is this after all which ties us to our ancestors and them to us.  "Somber as it may be though we laugh and cry, we must each someday die."