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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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Why Contemplating Death Changes How You Think

Reading this article could temporarily change your politics, biases and decision-making–it might even make you want to be famous. Why? The very idea of death changes our thoughts in profound ways.

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A Common Casualty of Old Age: The Will to Live

Suicide is more common among older Americans than any other age group. The statistics are daunting. While people 65 and older account for 12 percent of the population, they represent 16 percent to 25 percent of the suicides. Four out of five suicides in older adults are men.

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Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush: Walking Each Other Home

Tami Simon interviews Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush, who have written a new beautiful book, called Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying. It explores what it means to live and die consciously, remembering who we really are, and illuminating the path that we all walk together.

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Coping with ‘Death Awareness’ in the COVID-19 Era

According to terror management theory, people can have surprising reactions.

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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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Letting Go: What Should Medicine Do When It Can’t Save Your Life?

Sara Thomas Monopoli was pregnant with her first child when her doctors learned that she was going to die. It started with a cough and a pain in her back. Then a chest X-ray showed that her left lung had collapsed, and her chest was filled with fluid.

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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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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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What the Living Can Learn from the Dying

Sean Illing and Frank Ostaseski discuss what Ostaseski has learned from the conversations he’s had with the dying.

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