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How consumption patterns deny mortality

I'm 67 and I keep buying things I'll never use and making plans I'll never follow through on and I think I'm trying to convince myself I have unlimited time left.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Material acquisition can serve as unconscious defense against awareness of finite time.

Ideas that help explain it
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