Why is it so many don’t want to acknowledge this simple truth? It is part of the Bible and Qu’ran. Not as familiar with other teachings.
I love this little guy. He’s normally pretty aloof, but acknowledges the book of life’s last page, providing comfort.
Contrast that to this professional:
If a nurse cannot accept that providing some level of comfort to a patient at the end, whether from a new virus or a long standing battle or severe injuries, is part of her job, she should do like a nurse my brother dated and pursue preventive care as a field.
I’ll take the cat’s comfort over that nurse’s attitude any old day.
The 4 Truths. Birth, aging, illness, death
Birth, Suffering, pain, death
The truth of “dependent origination”
It explains the 12 cause and effect steps leading from birth to death to rebirth or nirvana
Wikipedia:
Pratītyasamutpāda (Sanskrit; Pali: paṭiccasamuppāda), commonly translated as dependent origination, or dependent arising, is a key doctrine of Buddhist philosophy,[note 1] which states that all dharmas (“phenomena”) arise in dependence upon other dharmas: “if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist”.
The principle is expressed in the links of dependent origination (Pali: dvādasanidānāni, Sanskrit: dvādaśanidānāni) in [Buddhism