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Sooner or Later We All Face Death. Will a Sense of Meaning Help Us?

By Warren Ward — 2020

The last thing the Buddha said to his followers was: ‘Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence!’

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What Does Taoism Teach About Life After Death?

It’s always useful to learn about death in different cultures. And Taoist beliefs about death—both religious and philosophical—are interesting and complex. By learning about Taoist beliefs about death and life after death, you can better understand many philosophies around the world.

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Sarah Kessler
2020
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These Zen Priests Could Make You Less Fearful of Death

For many of us, thinking about death—our own, or that of anyone we love—is supremely difficult. So, most of the time, we don’t think about it at all—until we have no choice.

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Lauren Effron
2016
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A Zen Master Explains Life and Death to a Child and Outlines the Three Essential Principles of Zen Mind

“Zen practice … requires great faith, great courage, and great questioning.”

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Maria Popova
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No Risky Chances: The Conversation that Matters Most.

I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them. Although I was given a dry, leathery corpse to dissect in anatomy class in my first term, our textbooks contained almost nothing about aging or frailty or dying.

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Atul Gawande
2014
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The Geography of Sorrow

"But now we’re asked — and sometimes forced — to carry grief as a solitary burden. And the psyche knows we are not capable of handling grief in isolation." - Francis Weller

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Tim McKee, Francis Weller
2015
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Just-Like-That Mind: A Great Zen Teacher on Navigating Loss and Grief

The mismatch between the knowledge and the longing is perhaps the most anguishing of all human experiences.

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Maria Popova
2016
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What to Say to Someone Who Is Dying

The truth is that many of us just don’t know the right words to comfort someone who is dying.

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Candace Rotolo
2020
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The Story of Death Is the Story of Women

…and they want to bring back “The Good Death.”

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Sarah Chavez
2019
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Death Cafes and Coffin Clubs

Death comes out of the shadows.

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Marilyn Mendoza
2019
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Life After Life

Increasingly, women are infusing our culture’s treatment of mortality with feminism, viewing the way we die as an act of empowerment and resistance, and creating what has become known as the “death-positive movement.”

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Christine Colby
2018
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