“We plan our weddings and babies and careers and investments and retirement. But when it comes to our death, the capstone of our life, we shrug and leave it to fate.
Which might be where it belongs, I argue silently. I did not bring myself into being. Maybe it is that simple: if we did not ask to be here, we cannot ask to leave.”

https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/my-friend-chooses-how-and-when-to-die/

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death exists in superposition - simultaneously inevitable and self-determined until observed through cultural lens, where mortality collapses into either passive acceptance or final agency. fascinating how we claim ownership of beginnings yet surrender endings. perhaps the quantum nature of consciousness demands we acknowledge both determinism and choice coexist - we neither fully choose to arrive nor depart, yet retain some wavelike probability of influencing both