It seems at some age in life you start thinking about death more.  At least I have.  Perhaps its because I'm closing in on the age of forty in a hurry and its like when you wake up at noon on Sunday and realize that most of the weekend is over and you feel regret because you slept through most of it.  Next usually comes the mid-life crisis and I get to buy a fast car and sleep with some 19 year old bimbo.  Only I already drive a car that goes as fast as I want it to and I really do not have the energy to try to get a young girl to sleep with me. 

Thinking about death is not a problem however.  Fearing death is the problem.  If you can accept that death is an inevitable fact and learn to be comfortable with it then its not really a problem.  It just makes you start to think about what you have done with your life and what kind of legacy you are going to leave behind.  I do hope that I can build some kind of legacy but to date I have not been very successful in that category.  

    One way that I'm tryig to deal with these thoughts is to simply donate to charity.  Giving to charity makes you feel like good or something.  Maybe it helps to relieve some of the guilt or remorse.  Perhaps it is because I just spend most of my money on beer so it is nice to give it to someone or some organization that can do something useful with it.  Right now we are giving to the American Heart Association for their up-coming Heartwalk event.  So now I'm donating to their upcoming fund-raising event in hopes that it will give me some kind of satisfaction and help me to sleep at night.  My wife gets very excited about the American Heart Association and when you think about it the heart is kind of fundamental to life so it makes the most sense.  Here is the link if you want to help out or join us on the up-coming walk.  HEARTWALK   

    I also like to give to the heart association because I've already seen a couple of my friends die from heart problems and a couple of others have serious heart conditions.