"The Ship of Death"

D.H. Lawrence asks on of the greatest questions through out this entire poem.  "Have you built your ship of death. O have you?"  I believe that with this question Lawrence was not just writing a poem but also asking his readers if they are prepared for when they must leave the world. As humans we all try to live life to the fullest never missing the great opportunities that are given to us yet do any of us prepare for the reality that one day we will all be gone. "O build your ship of death, for you will need it." We should, yes, always live life to the fullest but in doing so we must be ready to enter the dark oblivion of no longer being with our loved ones.  We must spend our time doing the things we love and being the best that we can be so that we have no regrets as we do leave this beautiful world. We must be ready to enter that tiny shade of light and not lose ourselves within the darkness of death as Lawrence so mentions through out the entire poem, so I ask the same question that Lawrence asks us have we built our ship of death yet and if we haven't will we ever build it before it is to late.