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When pregnancy triggers mortality anxiety about your child

I am pregnant and instead of joy I feel terror because I brought someone into the world who will definitely die someday.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Creating life inevitably creates death, and this paradox can transform the joy of birth into confrontation with inevitable loss.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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