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Facing our own death can be an experience either of fear, helplessness, and pain or of acceptance, gratitude, and continuing engagement with loved ones and valued activities. Models have been crafted about stages of facing one’s death that suggest we initially cannot accept it but that our anger, our efforts at bargaining, our sadness all still take us to eventual recognition and acceptance. Whether or not we feel our own death is imminent, there is much great wisdom that shares the thought that facing—and accepting—our own mortality is essential to living a full, vibrant, and meaningful life in the moment we are alive, here and now.

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

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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When Breath Becomes Air: A Young Neurosurgeon Examines the Meaning of Life as He Faces His Death

“When you come to one of the many moments in life where you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world.”

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Why Cancer Patients Don’t Have Enough Information to Make Decisions About Their Treatments

In the past four years, Bruce Mead-e has undergone two major surgeries, multiple rounds of radiation and chemotherapy to treat his lung cancer. Yet in all that time, doctors never told him or his husband whether the cancer was curable — or likely to take Mead-e’s life.

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Sherwin Nuland on the Art of Dying and How Our Mortality Confers Meaning Upon Our Lives

“The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it.”

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Love, Grief, Forgiveness & Healing: An Interview with Stephen & Ondrea Levine

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. ~Stephen Levine, “A Year to Live”

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What Is the Nature of Sound Healing? An Interview with Silvia Nakkach, Part 2

Part Two of an interview with musician and composer Silvia Nakkach. She discusses how sound and music can bring about healing and why this is applicable in end-of-life situations.

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What Is the Nature of Sound Healing? An Interview with Silvia Nakkach, Part 1

Part One of an interview with musician and composer Silvia Nakkach. She discusses how sound and music can bring about healing and why this is applicable in end-of-life situations.

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Marcus Aurelius on Embracing Mortality and the Key to Living with Presence

“The longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.”

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Death Anxiety: Body Bags, Catastrophic Thinking and Facing the Inevitable

With doom and death constantly in the news, it’s hard to escape constant reminders of our mortality. But reminders might just be what we need.

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How a Doctor Brought Life Back to a Nursing Home Where People Were Dying

In his new book ‘Being Mortal,’ surgeon and author Atul Gawande tells the miraculous story of a menagerie that gave sick people a reason to live.

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