On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker finds a darkly comic comfort in the simplicity of dying.
- In plain terms
- Dying is easy because you can do it while lying down.
- What can you take from it?
- Death removes the effort required for daily activities.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What comforts you about mortality?
- How do you joke about death?
Another view
It makes light of a serious universal fear.
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