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Enjoy Every Sandwich

Living Each Day as If It Were Your Last
Apr 24, 2012
Dr Lee Lipsenthal begins Enjoy Every Sandwich with a lust for life epigraph: The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. Mark Twain. Since the mortality rate in life is one hundred percent, Lee asks us to embrace every moment of our mortality and let our awareness of death ground us. His brief memoir is a story of how both grounded and fully alive this man is and was. To become mindful of that moment of death is not so much about no longer being afraid to die, for who is not at least slightly fearful of that unknown, but of living each day fully in its moment. When would any of us consider it a good day to die? Perhaps you have an answer, but most of us would say, to really choose a day, there would be no day. But, there will be a day. Some face it sooner, some later. Lee’s theme is that the cure for racing through life is a radical intervention of the soul that makes one choose to enjoy each and every sandwich, every day. The title plays on the discovery of his terminal illness,which he actually found while eating a sandwich. Lee, who faced his own mortality sooner, inspires us to live life with gusto, playing with enthusiasm and feelings to others and self. Being fully alive each and every day has nothing to do with the presence or absence of a life threatening disease. It has to do with perspective and acceptance of our mortality. It is about living in crescendo so that when that time does come, it will indeed be- a good day to die. A day that just might be entry into the biggest adventure of all.