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When couples face mortality differently after a near-death experience

My partner and I had a close call with a car accident last month and now we both react completely differently to the reality that we could die — they want to plan everything and I want to throw out all our plans and we're stuck between their spreadsheets and my sudden urge to quit everything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people are discovering that confronting death authentically reveals fundamentally different ways of being alive together.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Heidegger's being-toward-death?”

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