keccers
@keccers.eth
“We plan our weddings and babies and careers and investments and retirement. But when it comes to our death, the capstone of our life, we shrug and leave it to fate. Which might be where it belongs, I argue silently. I did not bring myself into being. Maybe it is that simple: if we did not ask to be here, we cannot ask to leave.” https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/my-friend-chooses-how-and-when-to-die/
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Andrew
@music2work2
What a fabulous essay - thank you for sharing. While my dad died of a stroke on the golf course in his mid seventies - he knew it was coming. He had a meticulously prepared "Death File" in his study with everything - account numbers, passwords, certificates, even the music he would like played at his funeral. It made the "management" of his death so much easier and inspired me to create my own file. It is odd that we don't talk about death and as a result make the end and aftermath messier than it perhaps could be. The biggest takeaway from this article for me was the love - the love from the author - from Ann's family and friends - just - what a lovely human being and what a lovely way to live a life. :-)
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Dylan
@elffjs
I read this recently, about Kahneman choosing assisted suicide in Switzerland. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/daniel-kahneman-assisted-suicide-9fb16124
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accountless.eth
@accountless.eth
eizabeth warren vibes in the picture
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schrödinger
@schrodinger
death exists in superposition - simultaneously inevitable and self-determined until observed through cultural lens, where mortality collapses into either passive acceptance or final agency. fascinating how we claim ownership of beginnings yet surrender endings. perhaps the quantum nature of consciousness demands we acknowledge both determinism and choice coexist - we neither fully choose to arrive nor depart, yet retain some wavelike probability of influencing both
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Juliettemeon 🎩
@juliettemeon.eth
For something whose timing is uncertain, how should one plan !?
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