{"id":23191,"date":"2019-05-13T01:24:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T17:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=23191"},"modified":"2019-05-20T23:29:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T15:29:43","slug":"death-reflections-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2019\/05\/death-reflections-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Reflections #6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23192 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/noble.png?resize=600%2C600&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/noble.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/noble.png?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/noble.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/noble.png?resize=38%2C38&amp;ssl=1 38w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/noble.png?resize=186%2C186&amp;ssl=1 186w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/noble.png?resize=184%2C184&amp;ssl=1 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From: &#8216;<\/strong>How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life&#8217; by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James S. Romm:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote:<\/strong> Praise and emulate the man who does not disdain to die, though it&#8217;s pleasant to live, what virtue is there in leaving by being thrown out? Yet here too is a virtue: I&#8217;m being thrown out, but let me take my leave nonetheless. The wise man is never thrown out, for to be thrown out is to be expelled from a place you leave unwillingly; the wise man does nothing unwillingly; he flees from necessity, since he desires that which it will force upon him. (Epistle 54)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thought:<\/strong>&nbsp;Die willingly and happily when it is time &#8211; or die unwillingly and unhappily. The wiser choice is obvious. Before being &#8216;thrown out&#8217;, choose to depart with preparation and control, with sufficient spiritual practice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: &#8216;How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life&#8217; by Seneca, edited, translated, and introduced by James&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[654],"class_list":["post-23191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-control","wpcat-44-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}