Wild awake at 03:15

For the second night in a row, I fall asleep easily, and sleep as well as any 64 year old man with a swollen prostate can. :-) then wake up. After only 4 hours sleep, I might as well get up and read, or walk around the kitchen, or .. write my thoughts in a blog.
So I made some hot lemon water, and download the lyrics to an old Neil Diamond song that keeps running through my head.

"Done Too Soon"

Jesus Christ, Fanny Brice
Wolfie Mozart and Humphrey Bogart
And Genghis Khan
And on to H. G. Wells

Ho Chi Minh, Gunga Din
Henry Luce and John Wilkes Booth
And Alexanders King and Graham Bell

Ramar Krishna, Mama Whistler
Patrice Lumumba and Russ Colombo
Karl and Chico Marx
Albert Camus,

E. A. Poe, Henri Rousseau
Sholom Aleichem and Caryl Chessman
Alan Freed and Buster Keaton too

And each one there
Has one thing shared
They have sweated beneath the same sun
Looked up in wonder at the same moon
And wept when it was all done
For bein' done too soon
For bein' done too soon
For bein' done

World population is close to 7 Billion, and total number of people ever born is around 108 Billion.  Cancer/Death converts the minority alive people into the majority dead.

What is happening to me is far from making me unique. Just the opposite. I'm just doing what 108 Billion other people have already done. 

The deception of the ego still makes me think: But this death is different, because it is about ME!  This is personal, and so it is seen from a different perspective than the other 108 Billion deaths. This one seems much more important!

Steve Jobs had a net worth of over 10 Billion Dollars. He even had his DNA sequenced. He died of Cancer. Maybe 10 Billion Dollars isn't enough to save someone. What about 20 Billion? 50 Billion?

Maybe if I had lived a more moral and ethical life like Mother Therressa? She is one of the 108 Billion. Morals didn't help her.

Maybe if I understood the way the universe really works. Like Buddha? Nope.

Maybe religion. Religion didn't prevent Muhammed or Jesus from joining the majority.

Money, Morals, Faith, Knowledge and Power all do nothing to prevent the conversion to the 108 majority club. 

I hear some people say "Don't give up hope." I'm sure that most of the 108 club "hoped" they wouldn't die. Obviously hope will do nothing to prevent me from joining the 108 club.

There are many things that Money, Morals, Faith, Knowledge and Power can do. But cheating death is not one of them.

It is almost 5 in the morning. I will try sleep again.