If everything is limited to this life, then life itself becomes meaningless. Is the ultimate purpose just to exist normally? Isn’t it better not to exist and avoid suffering? The finite is senseless. Or should the person exist so as to disregard life’s terminal character and not to reflect on this? It will then seem to him that life is endless…
If we ask an ordinary person, he will say: “I do not want to think about death and about the fact that everything comes to an end. There are today, tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. I live in the present.” What does “to live in the present” mean? A person imagines the flow of life as infinite, hence he can live. The moment he perceives life as terminal, he either falls into depression or is obliged to search for an answer to the question about life’s meaning. There is no getting away from that.
Courtesy of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZFLmhFn0mg