Death Is a Doorway Into Meaning

There are just so many things in our lives we don't want, right? Obligations, debts, disagreements, the tedium of domestic life. And yet there are moments that cut through everything. Moments that wrench our attention away from the cramped surfaces of life and redirect it to a broader, more spacious depth. Often, these are difficult moments, even devastating ones. But as we just heard, sometimes the nearness of death has the paradoxical effect of generating more life.

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