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How to face aging and death in loved ones

My grandmother is dying and I cannot visit her because I am terrified of seeing what I will become and I hate myself for being such a coward.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Confronting mortality in others forces us to reckon with our own inevitable decline and dissolution.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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