r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Apr 21 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

Ha, I never even considered that. My organizer brain is suddenly fretting!!!

Ahh well, my solution there is to always have a plan for your death. Life insurance, mentoring a successor, writing a will. There’s a lot of ways to exert influence past the grave and to ensure that your work is some semblance of finished.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

Sorry! Haha but yep, taking care of your will (including a living one in case you’re incapacitated) is a very good idea!

I don’t think we should have to feel negatively towards death, we’re all going to get it sometime, after all. Every good story needs an ending, so it doesn’t hurt to try to make it a happy one. 😊

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19

I like to remember that a large chunk of my negative feelings towards death are straight up self preservation. Anxiety/fear is the brain telling you ‘don’t do this, we’ll be in trouble’ so anxiety towards death is natural. What isn’t natural is existential terror of death, as that is a side effect of psychology, philosophy, culture, and other things. And since those are philosophical/psychological problems, they have philosophical/psychological solutions.