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    What Thinking About Death Does for the Living

    An <em>Atlantic</em> reading list about an existential question
    by Isabel Fattal May 06, 2023 2 minutes
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    In a 1996 book, the philosopher Herbert Fingarette argued that fearing one’s own death was irrational. When you die, “there is

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