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How to cope with medical uncertainty and mortality

My doctor found something suspicious in my scan and I have to wait two weeks for results and I feel like I am already dead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Health scares collapse the comfortable distance between everyday life and the reality of bodily fragility.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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