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Finding Calm – Chapter 3 from Nancy Sherman’s “Stoic Wisdom”

The Daily Stoic

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The Immortality Plan - A Joke About Pre-Rehearsal

When beatrice sherman was in her mid nineties, i often thought about how we would talk about death. She wanted to avoid talking about death at all costs. But our little repeated free rehearsal made her last days easier for both of us. We shared our mortality, and we shared not dreading death together. My mother died just three days after we danced toge she in her wheel chair and i swirling her around with other couples on the dance floor at the nursing home.

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