In the days of my youth, I thought we would all die of cancer, so I developed an understanding of self that I thought would make those experiences easier. I see now that I had it all wrong. It is the slow loss of the very self that I thought could carry us through cancer that will actually kill us.

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Posted by Never Mind and Opa Opa on November 21, 2023 at 18:30:26 EST.

In the days of my youth, I thought we would all die of cancer, so I developed an understanding of self that I thought would make those experiences easier. I see now that I had it all wrong. It is the slow loss of the very self that I thought could carry us through cancer that will actually kill us.

n/t

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Well, as long as it something. That's what matters.

(SignOfErnestBecker)

(01:22:10 11/22/23 EST)

So tell me more. But keep in mind that this is about death as a process, not an event. He not busy being born is busy dying. Also, that yours is not the only death you have to live through. I don't really think it's about immortality or escaping from death. It's about containing it as a part of yourself and the impossibility if that when your self is hollowed out. Or do I have it wrong again?

(Life and Life Only (and Opa Opa))

(14:23:35 11/23/23 EST)

If I lost myself I would simply go find him, he can't get that far.

(exodus)

(15:55:59 11/22/23 EST)

I don't believe that you really think that. Life isn't even worth the living if you don't let yourself wander far. You know that.

Maybe what you think is that your self could never really wander out of your control, which is exactly the understanding of self that I was talking about. But the more I experience dying, the less that seems to be the case. Long may you live to believe it, though.

(Alma Borracha and Opa Opa)