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How survivor guilt complicates mortality awareness

I feel guilty for being alive when so many people have died and I do not know how to deserve the time I have left.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Being witness to others' deaths while remaining alive creates a burden of meaning-making that can feel impossible to bear.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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