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Paul Kalanithi’s unique perspective on mortality
A terminal diagnosis makes you reassess your values and priorities – not just when you get the news, but right up until your dying breath. This is a lesson that neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi learned while battling metastatic lung cancer. @
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What the Holocaust tells us about human nature
Her eyes locked onto him as soon as she entered the courtroom: Otto Adolf Eichmann, a Nazi butcher in the flesh, caged in a glass box.
The reason people act like they’re never going to die
Our brains are wired to view death as something that only happens to other people. According to research at Bar Ilan University in Israel, this is to protect us from existential threats and keep us living in the present.