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If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!

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There is some evidence, for example, that those who enter the death-related professions (soldiers, doctors, priests, and morticians) may in part be motivated by a need to obtain control over death anxiety.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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Mature love is loving, not being loved.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Able Accomplish Agree Among Change Great Hardly Men Myself Nature
There are borderlines and there are borderlines. Labels do violence to people. You can’t treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label. (17)
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Behind Borderline Label People Treat Violence
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.
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A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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Death Destroy Idea Physical Save Through
… sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.
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Better Give Hope Later Past Sooner
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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