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When loved ones' anxiety about death becomes contagious

My mom calls me every day to check if I am still alive and I resent her for making me think about death so much.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Others' mortality fears can infiltrate our consciousness, making it impossible to maintain healthy denial about death's inevitability.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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