I have two tattoos that I got in response to an extremely close friend getting shot and killed by his father-in-law after being threatened by him for quite some

I have two tattoos that I got in response to an extremely close friend getting shot and killed by his father-in-law after being threatened by him for quite some time. It was a child custody dispute (long backstory), but the threats were if he didn't drop the lawsuit (? not sure what the word is for the trial to get custody from someone) he would kill my friend and my friend's wife (the murderer's daughter). My friend refused to on the principle that he could never let someone like that have custody of a kid. My friend was killed two days after the judgement giving him and his wife custody. The tattoos are on my forearms and say "love life" and "embrace death". It's the inevitability of death and living your life in a manner that at the moment of your death, you can look back and be proud of the decisions you made. It doesn't mean live today as if it were your last, it means live it such that if it turned into your last, you have no regrets. And if you have any regrets in your past, fix them. It quickly became second nature to consider all decisions on this axis, and if the result of a decision made you regret it, fix it quickly.