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We’re All Going to Die. Why Is It So Hard to Talk About It?

Most of us don’t fear death so much as the process leading up to it.

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Sherwin Nuland on the Art of Dying and How Our Mortality Confers Meaning Upon Our Lives

“The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it.”

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Scientists Look At The Strange "Half-Dead" State Of Meditating Buddhist Monks

In Tibetan Buddhism, there’s a mystical concept known as “thukdam” or “tukdam,” in which an experienced meditator can slip into a state of mind said to be accessible at the time of death.

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A Dose of a Hallucinogen from a ‘Magic Mushroom,’ and then Lasting Peace

Two studies used psilocybin to see if the drug could reduce depression and anxiety in cancer patients. The results were striking.

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Through a Glass Darkly: Miriam Greenspan on Moving from Grief to Gratitude

"Well, the Buddha taught that we increase our suffering through our attempts to avoid it." - Miriam Greenspan

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Marcus Aurelius on Embracing Mortality and the Key to Living with Presence

“The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.”

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How Faith Communities Facilitate Conversations Around End-Of-Life Concerns

Interviews show the benefits of training and engagement on advance care planning

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Deena Metzger on Coronavirus as Next Manifestation of Environmental Crisis

By seeing this virus as another manifestation of the life-destroying consequences of the form of life we humans have been living, Deena Metzger's prophetic voice gives us a context to understand this latest pandemic and how it can teach humanity a vital message.

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Death Anxiety: Body Bags, Catastrophic Thinking and Facing the Inevitable

With doom and death constantly in the news, it’s hard to escape constant reminders of our mortality. But reminders might just be what we need.

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How a Doctor Brought Life Back to a Nursing Home Where People Were Dying

In his new book ‘Being Mortal,’ surgeon and author Atul Gawande tells the miraculous story of a menagerie that gave sick people a reason to live.

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