My partner and I keep making five-year plans and retirement goals but we never acknowledge that one of us will probably die first and the other will be alone and it feels like we're building a fantasy instead of preparing for actual reality.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are constructing a shared future that denies the fundamental fact of individual mortality.
“Where Are You with Heidegger's being-toward-death?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.