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Accepting and Embracing Our Mortality
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 66, Number 3, Summer 2023
- pp. 451-460
- 10.1353/pbm.2023.a902037
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
Aging and death need to be seen as a single reality, aging-and-death. Separating them largely voids the lessons to be learned from aging, and the benefits of seeing life as a whole and learning a new sense of beauty, meaning, hope, and love. All the distinctive experiences central to our sense of ourselves as human beings are tied to recognition of our mortality. Living a full life means accepting and embracing death as not only inevitable, but necessary and desirable.