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How to maintain friendships when mortality awareness becomes unequal

Our friend group used to feel invincible but now we're all in our thirties and people are getting serious illnesses and we don't know how to be together when some of us are facing mortality and others are still living like we're immortal.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is fragmenting as different members confront the reality of death at different paces and depths.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.