You are right. But on the other side of the coin, death is something we can can come to terms with, something we sometimes must come to terms with. The thing t

You are right. But on the other side of the coin, death is something we can can come to terms with, something we sometimes must come to terms with. The thing that I think you find unsettling roots from the fact you feel you need to prevent discussion of your mortality from being "normal". This man needs his mortality to be a "normal" thing. It is happening to him, and soon, so putting it into a context of "normal" life helps with that.