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View submission: A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death (Herbert Fingarette, 1921-2018)
Death is an experience in and of itself, and while terrifying, brings a fitting end to a chaotic existence. It's peaceful and infinite while life is catastrophic and short.
Perhaps we live for so little time as we do because any more would be too much.
It's difficult to say, but it seems this man found more reason to live than to die. Yet, wherein does the problem continue to exist for him now? It doesn't. And so the solution to the problem comes in acceptance, ironically concluded by his statement of an inability to come to terms with the phenomenon.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/01/2020 at 00:45 UTC*
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