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May 28, 2021 at 02:30 PM
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Does anyone else get bouts of thantophobia? It comes and goes for me but since I hit 30 for whatever reason I have had this problem it ebbs and flows but it's nearly always there. I don't have any physical ailments that I know of but I'm just scared of dying sometimes. I think more than anything I fear dying having lived a pointless existence, or having done more damage than healing in my life. I try to comfort myself with the thought that we are all in the same "boat" but still there is something very personal about contemplating one's own death.
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May 28, 2021 at 05:43 PM
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Definitely! I used to have a pen pal (way back in my teens lol) who mentioned something you might like to look up called ‘equanimity’ - it’s basically what you achieve when you’ve made peace with the idea of dying. I’m definitely not there yet, though.
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May 28, 2021 at 07:40 PM
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“You’re not being told the party’s over, in fact you’re being told something worse than that. In fact the party’s going to go on for a good long while yet, but you have to leave.”-Christopher Hitchens
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