Rather than straining to look away from death, does growing familiar with it by reckoning it often, in advance, in fact free us from its dread?
To philosophize is to learn how to die. For one who has reckoned death in advance, death loses its strangeness and its dread.
First asked by Michel de Montaigne
This question split whether to learn death in advance or to live forgetting it.
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