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When professional exposure to death creates existential emptiness

I work in a morgue and after touching thousands of dead bodies I've become convinced that whatever we are just completely stops and it's made living feel pointless.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intimate familiarity with death's material reality can dissolve meaning structures that depend on continuity beliefs.

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Worth thinking about

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

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