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- Living with Mortality: Life Goes On
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- Malin Dollinger, MD, and Bernard Dubrow, MS
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- We revel in life's beginning, wrestle with its challenges
- and take pride in our achievements. We know deep
- down that we are mortal and that our life will end
- some time in the future—the distant future, we
- hope—but we are not consciously aware of
- our mortality from day to day.
- The media bombard us with flashes of
- death in stories and graphic pictures of
- car accidents, plane crashes, murders and
- wars, but we block them out in our minds.
- We feel protected and safe. We can accept
- the deaths of war heroes and old people,
- but reject the idea of its happening to us.
- We focus on guarding and enjoying our life and
- intuitively distance ourselves from thoughts of our mortality.