Unless you're flat out dead, you have to think of some other questions like: what's on the other side? It brings up issues of God, or no God. How does he play into this? Or he, or she, or it? How does it all play into this?
It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.
I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.