Acharya Prashant explains that when it becomes absolutely clear that death is an unavoidable fact, it is no longer an object to think about or analyze. Once the matter of death is settled, one can truly talk about life. As long as you are trying to fight death, you will remain busy with it and consequently miss out on life. He poses the question: what is a bigger loss, not thinking enough about death or not living deeply enough? We tend to think we must contemplate death, which he calls the unthinkable. Every second spent thinking about death is a second lost from life and living. To illustrate his point, Acharya Prashant recalls when Mahatma Gandhi returned to India from South Africa. After being at the center of a civil movement for over two decades, Gopalkrishna Gokhale advised him, "No public life for you for at least one year. Just abstain, observe, watch, travel, know." Gokhale explained that despite Gandhi's experience, he needed to first understand the country because there were too many things happening to rush into action blindly. Similarly, one must first understand the fundamental reality of their situation. The speaker emphasizes that everyone is in the queue for death. Only the dead, who are out of the queue, can sympathize with the living. We are all on a journey towards death. Anything that takes birth must end; birth guarantees this. Just as birth is a certainty, death is an inviolable certainty. Thought cannot change this. In fact, to make it more certain, one can start assuming they are already dead. Sometimes, one might say, "I'll face bullets and let this body die, but let the psychic-self prevail," becoming a martyr. Death is already happening moment by moment, not just in the future. When you think somebody is gone, you too are gone. There was a time they were not there, and you were not there, and soon a time will come when neither will be here. A mystic once said, "Death should be celebrated." This means you should not cry over the fact that somebody died, but over the fact that life was not lived fully. You cry over the lost moments and opportunities. If those opportunities are not lost, there would be no reason to cry, and death can be celebrated. If everything about a person's life was joyful, how can their death be painful? And if their entire life was painful, death cannot be anything other than pain. The expression on your face while you are alive will be the same when you die.