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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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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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When we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves
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Absorbed Become Forgotten Ourselves Outside Someone Something
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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Choose Every Must Person Stand Truth
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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One thing I feel clear about is that it’s important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven’t really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won’t look back upon my forties with regret.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?
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I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.
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Being Call Claws Must No Stop Themselves
The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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Anxiety Both Decision Domain Finiteness Groundlessness Hard Lead Path Soak Territory
Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Look Other Out Patient See Window World
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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Another Care Experience Fully Individual Know Mean Other Possible
Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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Accident Existence Let Life Plan Possession
Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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