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Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

CHAPTER

The Soulfulness of Death

Matt asks, how do you and should you bring children into the conversation about death? Is this something that can wait until there's personally relevant to them? It's a good question. Most of our images of death are the grim reaper and some terrible beings coming to grab us. I think death is more soulful than that. When I called her she I thought of the soulfulness of the feminine receiving us as opposed to taking us.

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