Facing your own death to return to yourself

For Heidegger, fleeing the thought of death means letting yourself live the way "one" lives, diluted in habits and the expectations of others. Anticipating your own death, the one death no one can take on in your place, singles you out and returns you to what you truly want: this is being-toward-death. Today this exercise is an antidote to autopilot, a way to take back the reins of an authentic life rather than one merely endured.