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How death anxiety affects financial planning

I stopped making long-term investments because spending money on the future feels absurd when I might not have one.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Acute awareness of mortality can make practical future-planning feel like a denial of death's unpredictable timing.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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