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Why we plan for immortality while knowing we will die

I know I am going to die someday but I cannot stop planning for the future as if I will live forever and this contradiction is driving me crazy.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The psyche maintains contradictory relationship with mortality, simultaneously knowing and denying death to maintain functional engagement.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Existential psychology — meaning death freedom?”

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