By dwelling on death, one stops living.

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Making death the focus of existence risks tinting every moment with dread, instead of freeing it for action and joy.
reverses the idea in advance: "a free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life."
The Epicurean adds: since death, when it comes, is nothing to us, devoting constant attention to it is to spoil the present for a nothingness.

Therefore Therefore authenticity through death can turn into its opposite: a morbid fascination that impoverishes the life it claims to intensify.

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