I think about death every day, which means I think about life every day. I don't think about it in a "morbid" way. Every day I wake up is a bonus for me, an op

I think about death every day, which means I think about life every day. I don't think about it in a "morbid" way. Every day I wake up is a bonus for me, an opportunity to make things, live experiences, and be better: a better son, brother, uncle, colleague, friend, human. Death where I live is different. When someone dies, hundreds of people go to the funeral. They'll support the family with their presence, the logistics, catering, transportation, and an organization forms for a few days to completely solve any problem the family might face to allow them to deal with the death. People will self organize in rotations, bring necessities, transport other people to their destinations, etc. Those who knew the person of course will come, some will fly in, some will take days off to be present. It doesn't have to be family. For example, colleagues or professional relations of someone who lost their father will come to the funeral. Family friends, neighbors, people who've worked with the person twenty years ago, childhood friends of their children will come. People who go to funerals also bring people with them who did not know the family. There's a funeral motorcade. If the person who dies had a "good" family, by good family I mean children who were nice with people, honorable, and helped others, a cemetery can get too small. If the person was in a line of work that involved knowing many people, like in the armed forces, again: their colleagues and their families will go. If the person was hospitalized, it's common for colleagues or acquaintances of the person's children to come and visit, introduce themeselves, chat the parent, bring things, ask if the person needs anything. One of the common things here is that children get exposed to death at a very, very early age. They get exposed to it mostly from a religious stand point, and not in a "your mom is in heaven looking at us", but more like "people die, and if they did good things when they were alive they go to heaven, if not they go to hell". But they do get exposed to it. They are taken to funerals, and marriages, and baby celebrations, and generally speaking, all the above also is valid for marriages. Hundreds of people will flock in. So the rapport to life, sickness, and death is a bit intertwined and they're all present in people's minds with varying degrees. In the place where my parents are from, it's different since we're not the same ethnicity or have the same relation to religion, or religion in the first place, as the majority. It is not uncommon to have tombs of people right in front of houses, or in piazzas where people in the summer go to cool off, eat ice cream, and play guitar and sing, with kids playing around. I've always seen it as a way to include these people in living activities, so that their body may have left this place, but their memory nonetheless still is intact.