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When attending funerals triggers mortality panic

I started having panic attacks after my friend's funeral because I realized that someday people will be sitting in a room talking about me in past tense and I will not be there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Witnessing others' deaths forces confrontation with one's own future absence from the world of the living.

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