I have read multiple times, from multiple thinkers, that to study philosophy, or to philosophize, is to learn how to die.

So if Philosophy is the love of, and the search for, wisdom, and if wisdom is some balance of knowledge, experience, skepticism, uncertainty, tolerance, flexibility, effort, discretion, a sense of humor, and transcendence, then it appears to me that to learn how to die, is to learn how to live.

The more I fear death, the more likely I am to ignore death and/or renounce death. If I ignore death and/or renounce death, I am living duplicitously.

If I have any questions about death, I must learn how to die, so I may learn how to live, ingenuously.