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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.

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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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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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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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The death anxiety of many people is fueled … by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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To the extent that one is responsible for one’s life, one is alone.
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Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That’s when I will be truly dead – when I exist in no one’s memory.
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Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one’s life!
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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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Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group therapy, and the prevailing sentiment of the mental health profession, are sufficiently strong that it would be difficult to defend the adequacy of the inpatient unit that attempted to operate without a small group program.
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