Three of us in our friend group have been meeting monthly to talk about 'the big questions' since a mutual friend died last year, but we keep getting stuck because one person wants to focus on legacy and meaning-making while another insists we're just avoiding the reality that death makes everything absurd, and I'm somewhere in between feeling like we're talking past each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group formed around shared mortality awareness is fragmenting because members hold irreconcilable positions on whether meaning can exist in the face of death.
“Where Are You with Existential psychology — meaning death freedom?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.