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Caitlin Doughty

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    Death drives every creative and destructive impulse we have as human beings. The closer we come to understanding it, the closer we come to understanding ourselves.
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    “The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else.” The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m.
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    Pat O’Hara was the head of a Zen Buddhist center in New York City at the time of the September 11 attacks, when the towers of the World Trade Center came down in a scream of chaos and metal. “The smell didn’t go away for several weeks and you had the sense you were breathing people,” she said. “It was the smell of all kinds of things that had totally disintegrated, including people. People and electrical things and stone and glass and everything.”
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    Not only could I heal myself, but I could develop ways to engage children with mortality from early on so that they didn’t end up as traumatized as I was by their first experience with death.
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    Because we’ve never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us
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    We don’t need to hypothesize: we live in just such a culture. A culture of death denial.
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    In many ways, women are death’s natural companions. Every time a woman gives birth, she is creating not only a life, but also a death.
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    the more honest I was, the more satisfied and grateful people were.
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    For me, the good death includes being prepared to die
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    The good death means dying while I still have my mind sharp and aware; it also means dying without having to endure large amounts of suffering and pain.
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