Facing Mortality

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🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:29.7	Yesterday in the first hour, we talked to people 79 and above.
0:35.3	I think we got up to 90.
0:45.1	About... and above, I think we got up to 90, about considerations, thoughts, feelings, about dying,
0:50.5	eventually, sooner than real later at that age, right?
0:53.7	It was very interesting.
0:55.1	I hope you folks heard it.
0:57.9	I think it was very instructive for people.
1:10.4	How did folks explain why they were not frenzied about dying sooner rather than later.
1:19.0	Later is ostensibly when you're 20, 30, 40, you know, 80, 90, it's sooner rather than later.
1:21.9	So how did they face it?
1:24.7	And it was an interesting spectrum of things.
1:35.3	Some had a profound centering and foundation in religion. And they believed down to their last molecule that there was nothing to fear because of God and their belief and their relationship with God, et cetera,
1:48.1	and how this would all pan out.
1:50.5	They trusted God.
1:53.2	And you could hear the calmness, as several people express that.
2:02.6	Then there were the folks for whom God and afterlife and all of that was just a non-issue,
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