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I don't think I ever realized how far one person's death can reach until now. Before a few months ago, whenever I thought of death I would always think about wars and how so many people die every day in them. But when it's someone you know it's completely different. Sure, it's a fact that over 100 people die per minute globally, but when it's just a fact and it's just there it doesn't hit you about how many people that affects. Ironically, by taking someone away from the world, death brings people closer to each other. When you have emotions that you can share with other people in times of vulnerability, it makes you that much closer to them. Even if you aren't particularly close to someone when they are taken by death, it still affects you. And just like a cobweb, it's not easy to shake off.

Dealing with death is never easy and it doesn’t get easier with experience. There's no "right" way and no "easy" way. A coping mechanism isn't hardwired into humans and everyone deals with it differently. I listen to music and watch TV to distract me. I hate thinking about anything sad because I really don't deal with emotions well at all. I actually cry pretty easily. I've developed this thing where I just think about not thinking.

Death isn't introduced into our lives, it's always there. You can't just start dancing to "Can't Touch This" and expect death to leave. You can't try to Rick Roll death to try to make him leave either. Death, unlike Saw, does not want to play a game. Death doesn't just take humans; animals and plants are affected too. Wherever there is life, there is death. Please excuse this post's scatteredness (I don't care if that's not a word), I honestly don't even know how it ended up with "Can't Touch This" and Saw.

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever; the goal is to create something that will.”