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Essay: Why it Feels to Me Like so Many are Dying Young

On aging and memento mori

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O. Alan Noble
Aug 08, 2022
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I recently learned that an old acquaintance of mine suddenly and tragically lost her husband. I never met him, but from the photos she shared, he looked young, happy, and healthy. Possibly younger than me. Too young, anyway.

I know things like this happen all the time, and I know that social media can distort our sense of pโ€ฆ

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