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#297 — Preparing for the End

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Why You Should Write a Book Like This

There are meaningful differences between someone who's at the end stages of an illness and dying at any moment from someone who's walking around talking and otherwise in good health per se, et cetera. The thesis is don't wait till that diagnosis to realize you're mortal. If you can invite the truth of death into your life earlier and you'll receive its lessons. Once you realize you will die at some point, you in a sense can start really living.

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