Death is not the gift. The time we get with our loved ones is the gift. That's really where you get to experience the emotions that make you happy to be alive

Death is not the gift. The time we get with our loved ones is the gift. That's really where you get to experience the emotions that make you happy to be alive. Joy, love, hope, desire, anger, frustration, etc. I'll say that a NEAR death experience tends to be more of a gift, it happened to my brother and changed him drastically. Not all for the better, but much of it was good. I think the idea of calling death a gift is bullshit. Yes, you can learn and grow from the death of a loved one, but that isn't a gift, it's the absence of their presence (the real gift) that makes you realize what you had. To me, life without the lows and highs, is boring. That is because lows make people realize how special the high points are. But I know other people who would be content without either.