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but it's not especially surprising.
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It's not some deep surprising insight into the nature of death.
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We all knew everyone dies.
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You take that familiar fact and you
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wrap it up in the language "everyone dies alone."
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If that's all you're saying, you're not saying anything interesting.
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When people say,
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"You know, everyone dies alone,"
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you're supposed to be gaining some deep insight into the nature of death.
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Finally, "everyone dies alone" is supposed to
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say something special about death.
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It better not be that everyone does everything alone,