Rewording of text

It is not one sentence, but two. Does the "You must think" at the start of the first sentence mean that the speaker assumes that the person being addressed thinks "we should think of how to we live our lives before we think of how to die"?

No. The speaker is saying that we should think how we would die rather than think how we should live.

Then you don't need any more than this:

In order for us to live meaningfully, we should to think of how we will die.

The rest is excess verbiage.

I would delete the word "we" in the first sentence. Otherwise, I think the repetition adds to the effect. That's only my opinion, but sometimes repetition like that works.

Second sentence, just delete "I think". Again, just my opinion.

This is very bad



As roger notes, the 'we' here is a mistake.

As I wrote above, the speaker is saying that in order to live our lives well, we need to think about how we should die. That is the essence of his or her message. Why say more?

You see a seafood store on the end of a pier, and it has a sign.

Fresh Fish For Sale Here.

Of course it's fresh. It's on the ocean, right? So just use Fish for Sale Here.

Now, wait. For Sale? Of course they're for sale. Nobody's giving away anything. Lets just say Fish Here.

Well, the sign is Here, the store is Here, the Fish are here, so where else would the fish be sold?

Here's the final sign.

FISH

Removed a few more words.

To live well, we should consider how to die.

There's more than one way to dress up a cat, Contrex.

Hi JTT

What does the sentence above mean?

Many thanks.

I believe that JTT is being facetious; perhaps he or she would care to elaborate? At any rate, I presume the burden of his or her message is that there are usually multiple equally valid ways to express a concept.

That's correct, Contrex, there are, as you've so ably put it, "multiple equally valid ways to express a concept".