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[quote=Anonymous][quote]This is good advice, but really a lot of this stems out of sheer curiosity. Is this what most people do when they get old? I guess I'm just wondering what the "typical" way is for people to deal with this. [/quote]

Deal with what, exactly?  is it the knowledge that you will die at all, or the knowledge that you are more likely to die at 80 then 40?  Again, it comes back to why you are not living in the present moment.  You are more likely to die at 40 then you are at 20.  Are you more worried now about dying then you were at 20?  If so, why?  Do you feel that you were only given so many hours on earth and you want someone to tell what is like to be at the end of those hours?

[quote]It's something that's difficult to know because no one wants to come out and tell and ask an older person, "Hey how does it feel to know you will die soon?" Unless someone volunteers the information, there's no way to find out.[/quote]

You might find out more information if you researched how terminally ill people have addressed this issue since few of us, even those who are elderly, know how much time we have before we die.

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