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Mortality awareness
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What experts have said about Mortality awareness
3 statements · 2 positive · 1 negative
Feeling fully lived can reduce opposition to death and finite lifespan.
“if you feel like you've really lived, you're okay thinking I've lived enough. And that it having an end is not something to be fought.”
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Accepting mortality provides urgency and perspective.
“the acceptance and the submission to that fact, the awareness, the urgency, the perspective that that gives you is one of the most essential philosophical practices there is.”
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Ignoring mortality makes people more likely to waste their lives.
“to live in ignorance or in rejection of that fact is to set yourself up, I think more often than not to waste your life.”
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