
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Although we’re talking rather philosophically and at length about these aspects of death, we are arriving at something important. When we understand what we fear, we can untangle that fear and are more likely to be released from it. If the key to why we fear death is that it deprives us of furthering our projects and seeing them to completion, we m
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