Pop culture loves this theme. In the film The Tree of Life (2011), director Terrence Malick explores death as a cosmic inevitability—but the real loss is the unknown lives we never witnessed. It’s a bit artsy, but it nails the feeling.
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For a lighter take, the TV show The Good Place jokes about how humans “died first” in the sense of being the first species to figure out ethics. Spoiler: they didn’t. But it reminds us that death is just the weird punctuation mark on a sentence we’re still writing.
And in music, David Bowie famously sang, “I’m dying to push the clouds away” in “Lazarus.” He died two days after that song’s release, making his exit feel like a pre-planned performance. First or not, he did it with style.
