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In Death, Todd May claimes that "the importance of death lies not in the content of one's life..Rather, it lies in the way it structures how we go about our lives.' Meaning what he is trying to say is that. That content in our life is not important. Whether we decide to live our life working or dancing or in love with someone it does not matter. What he says matter is that we kow that death is the most important fact about us. That we know that we are going to die and to live accordingly to that. Live a life with structure around our death. So that we have no regrets in the end. Its like the example he uses in his class with his students. How he makes each student write what important for them in their lifes but then he rips them apart. He

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