If you think about it, although we may not be destined to die five minutes from now, we are all, without exception, going to die at some point. We can count on it 100%. There is nothing surer than this.
Victor Hugo said, “We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.”
Ideally, we should live every minute of our lives valuably, as if it were the last moment of our lives. Those who live aimlessly are left with a sense of emptiness at the end of their lives, but those who live all-out, striving right to the end, will die peacefully.
Leonardo da Vinci said “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”
One aware that death could come at any time, will live each day to the fullest.
The Search For Enlightenment 
Apr 28, 2011 @ 10:46:35
I couldn’t agree more. Yesterday has long gone, tomorrow is yet to come; all that really matters is right now so the present moment and how we use it is absolutely crucial. Everything –plans, career, life and love- can be snapped off in an instant without warning, time for preparation or farewell, recollection or regret.
All the things we postpone; the letter we didn’t write but meant to, the phone call we didn’t make when we had a strong urge and the bridges we didn’t build because we thought it wasn’t our responsibility. Fortune favours bridge builders. Carpe diem.