Introduction

Know this:
One day you will die.

World Death Day is on the 31st of December every year, from midnight to midnight. It is in the public domain - all human beings are invited to participate freely and entirely on their own terms. The sole objective of World Death Day is to provide space and time for all human beings to acknowledge mortality - their own death and that of all living beings - as truth.

While World Death Day is not owned and is therefore fully open to interpretation, it was nevertheless founded to meet specific aims:

• To provide an opportunity to address the evident fear of death and subsequent death-denial in our cultures and the destructive products of those fears.

• To propose a pathway towards meaningfulness and away from nihilism in human cultures through observing both the unique and improbable environmental circumstances that permit life, and the vulnerability of life perishing due to shifts in those circumstances.

• To bring awareness, shape and meaning to a person’s life by admitting their state as a living being who will one day die; by admitting their nature as a living being where “to live” means to be susceptible to death.

• To encourage human beings to accept their lives as being life among all life and to therefore advocate for human custodianship of the living.

• To bring personal life and our relationships to other lives into focus and meaningfulness as a result of acceptance of its assured ending.