wisdom

What Sitting With the Dying Teaches You About Living

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Lessons I Learned From Sitting With The Dying

The first thing I learned, and the one that took me the longest to actually absorb, was that dying people are not extraordinary. They are ordinary people who have run out of the ordinary reasons to pretend that the ordinary things are not what matters. Twenty years of sitting with people at the end of … Read more

What Makes a Good Person? The Question That Doesn’t Have a Simple Answer

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What Makes A Good Person

Over years of sitting with people near the end of their lives, I noticed that the ones I would genuinely call good almost never described themselves that way. They described themselves as still working on it. What makes a good person is not a fixed trait someone either has or lacks, and it is not … Read more