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Death gives advice on current events, relationships, family, work, and making your life matter to you while there is still time
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Toxic Livelihood (opens the original)
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Dear Death,I hate my job. It pays for my mortgage but I can’t fake that I don’t want to be there anymore. The chemical industry I work for pollutes and the excuses I made for how that would happen whether I took the paycheck or not began to feel hollow a few years ago.At the same time, if I quit my job it will change nothing but my earning potential. I’m not sure I could ever get back to the same income level trying to change my career now. The economy isn’t exactly great and I fear if I couldn’
Deathbed Awkwardness (opens the original)
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Dear Death,My younger sister has gone to a Hospice House. Yesterday, I got a strong feeling that I should get into the car and go, that I might not have another chance to say good-bye. Although she is not waking up anymore, I found myself sitting at her bedside and talking with her. I do believe that she could hear me even if she couldn’t respond. I told her that I love her and that she will always be my Little Sister.I told her that our parents and her belated husband would be waiting for her w
Three Death Meditations (opens the original)
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People challenge me often about having a daily practice of remembering mortality.“That sounds morbid,” a new acquaintance said recently.“I’m already neurotic enough,” a guy I met at a tech event told me upon hearing about death meditation practice.To put things succinctly, it’s a hard sell. I’ve been scoffed at ever since I came out with the WeCroak App in 2017 with its daily reminders about death. The app offers a practice of pausing five times per day to acknowledge d
Invite your friends or enemies to read Ask Death (opens the original)
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The Guy that Wants to Live Forever (opens the original)
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Over the last decade, the WeCroak app has reminded people that they will die with persistence, sending over 150 million reminders around the world. The tech industry, however, has overwhelmingly turned in the other direction toward death denial, funding billions of dollars in start-ups with missions of ending death.However, inside all the big money, one more scrappy immortality entrepreneur, Bryan Johnson has become the most recognizable face in the movement. Johnson achieved notoriety by turnin
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