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overfeedyesterday at 4:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

> No matter how rational you start, terminal cancer diagnosis throws much rationality out the window.

Doctors who get cancer typically stay level-headed. I wish society talked about death and mortality more often and openly, most people are ill-equiped to face it square on, and yet its the one thing that is truly universal. Humanity needs sex-ed, but for dying.


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bombcaryesterday at 4:39 PM

> Humanity needs sex-ed, but for dying.

I mean, we had that and threw it away; centuries of memento mori in various cultures and religions

hulituyesterday at 4:47 PM

> I wish society talked about death and mortality more often and openly,

They do. For example "US army sunk a boat with drug traffickers, killing everyone."

see Banality of evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem

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