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How parental love intensifies mortality awareness

I love my children so much it physically hurts and I keep thinking about how they're going to die someday and I don't understand how people function with this knowledge.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The fierce attachment that makes life meaningful also makes the reality of loss almost unbearable to contemplate.

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