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When loss reveals the apparent futility of effort

My best friend died in a car accident last month and I keep thinking that if nothing we do lasts then why am I bothering to get out of bed.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sudden confrontation with mortality can collapse the meaning-making structures that motivate daily engagement with life.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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