Processing our mortality

[Foxaèr]

Contemplating death is psychologically healthy. The people of Bhutan have a common practice of thinking about death five times a day, and they are considered one of the countries where the people are happiest. Even their children are not sheltered from death.

There's some evidence that we have a sort of 'psychological immune system' that prompts us to be more likely to think of something happy after we've been contemplating death.

Thanks for the happy thoughts, Lady!

Still, there's something else psychological to be stated for happiness deriving from thoughts of death.