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Kate Fagan on the Perspective Shifting Reality of Death

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

Is Your Father Teaching You How to Die?

The book is a portrait of an athlete, working through the mind set of who he wants to be and how he's going to one accept death and then approach death. It's not until the very, very end that he starts to realize that surrender is what he needs to do. By the time he realizes this, he has completely lost his voice. He couldn't talk any more so is trying to piece together ways in which he was communicating by blinking.

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