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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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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual.
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One comprehends oneself in order not to be preoccupied with oneself.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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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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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
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If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire.
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One doesn’t do existential therapy as a freestanding separate theory; rather it informs your approach to such issues as death, which many therapists tend to shy away from.
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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The therapist can make the group feel safer by allowing each patient to set his or her limits and by emphasizing the patient’s control over every interaction.
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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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