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How did you come to terms with Death?

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How did you come to terms with Death?
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RE: How did you come to terms with Death?
June 7, 2011 at 11:49 pm
Solon is reputed to have said "count no man happy until he is dead." I think that death is not really to be come to "terms" with unless you are encountering it directly. We can say that we have dealt with it ahead of time, but, being the unknowable (we cannot know non-being), it remains enigmatic and non-graspable.

I'm happily ignorant of it at present.
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How did you come to terms with Death?

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How did you come to terms with Death? - by Eternity - June 7, 2011 at 11:33 pm
RE: How did you come to terms with Death? - by Rhage - June 7, 2011 at 11:40 pm
RE: How did you come to terms with Death? - by Epimethean - June 7, 2011 at 11:49 pm
RE: How did you come to terms with Death? - by Eternity - June 7, 2011 at 11:49 pm
RE: How did you come to terms with Death? - by Rhage - June 7, 2011 at 11:57 pm
RE: How did you come to terms with Death? - by Cinjin - June 8, 2011 at 12:17 am
RE: How did you come to terms with Death? - by Eternity - June 8, 2011 at 12:28 am
RE: How did you come to terms with Death? - by Cinjin - June 8, 2011 at 12:34 am
RE: How did you come to terms with Death? - by Eternity - June 8, 2011 at 12:41 am
RE: How did you come to terms with Death? - by Violet - June 8, 2011 at 12:55 am
RE: How did you come to terms with Death? - by Cinjin - June 8, 2011 at 12:59 am
RE: How did you come to terms with Death? - by JohnDG - June 8, 2011 at 5:41 am

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