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When awareness of mortality creates existential dread

Every night I lie awake thinking about death and how nothing I do will matter in a hundred years, and it makes everything feel pointless.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Consciousness confronts its own impermanence without the comfort of transcendent meaning.

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