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How to navigate future planning when death feels imminent

Everyone keeps asking me about my five-year plan and I want to scream that I could be dead in five years and so could they.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social expectations for long-term planning clash with acute awareness that death could interrupt any timeline.

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.