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When surviving terminal illness creates conflicted relationship with existence

I almost died from cancer last year and now I feel like I'm living on borrowed time and everything feels simultaneously more precious and completely meaningless.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Proximity to personal death paradoxically heightens both life's value and its apparent arbitrariness.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Death and afterlife across all traditions?”

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