On Death

These two snippets are from the periodical Shabbat Shalom.

1. In Mishna Avot 2:9, we read "repent one day before your death." Because no person knows when that time will be, each of us ought to view each day as if it were possibly our last.
   
2. The current prayer book of the Reform movement in Judaism: We do best homage to our dead when we live our lives more fully, even in the shadow of our loss. For each of our lives is worth the life of the whole world."
   
   In this way we are challenged to create lives of meaning in which we strive to fulfill the blessing of being created b'tzelem elohim -- fashioned in the image of God.

Surely the latter is something to reflect on. While you do, also reflect that Covey's 8th Habit speaks to this in an indirect but very definite and inspiring way.