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When professional death exposure does not cure mortality fear

I work in hospice and I see people die peacefully every day but I am still terrified of my own death and feel like a hypocrite.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intellectual familiarity with dying does not automatically translate to emotional acceptance of one's own eventual death.

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