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Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living

Long Now: Seminars About Long-term Thinking

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The Importance of Self-Awareness in Death

Dying is inevitable and intimate. And ordinary people regularly develop insights into their lives in the time of dying. That have them emerge as a much larger, more expansive, more real person than the small, separate self they've taken themselves to be. So as you look at these photos, I want you to try and maintain that self-awareness through the whole course of the evening.

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