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DR. LIZ GLOYN
We know we are mortal but, as the Stoics note, we prefer to imagine otherwise. We forget the things we enjoy in life are gifts of fortune, and plan for a life we have no guarantee we will live; engaging with the simple and unarguable fact of our mortality often spirals us into a panic.