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When death anxiety steals present moments

I keep thinking about how my dad died at 58 and I am 52 now and I cannot stop calculating how many years I might have left instead of living the ones I have.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The contemplation of mortality has become a source of paralysis rather than clarity about what matters.

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“Where Are You with The Stoic meditation on death as time amplifier?”

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