[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

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I think that, what is troublesome about thinking about your own death is 
the thought, "Then what am I doing any of this for?" When I have talked to 
men who are deeply depressed by aging and to men in 30s life crises, it's 
almost invariably about their sense they feel obligated to achieve 
something and they are running out of time to do so. So, such a feeling is 
highly dependent on time and place. I doubt its eternal to human existence 
in other words.

I have health problems that will likely mean a rather sudden death at a 
relatively young age. learning this ten years ago may have bothered me. 
These days? I am grateful.

At 04:13 PM 5/9/2006, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>For most people in the real world (except the rich who are into
>cryogenics), the thought of their own death in itself doesn't mean
>much.  What's depressing is others' mortality: people we love -- or
>worse, people we wanted to love but couldn't really -- die and leave
>us behind.  And what we fear in our own cases is not death per se but
>pain that may attend the last moments of our lives, the pain that may
>be unalleviated due to lack of money, the "war on drugs" (cf.
><http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20060206/031174.html>),
>etc.  A while ago, Jim Devine posted: "A 65-year-old couple retiring
>today will need on average a tidy $200,000 set aside to pay for
>medical costs in retirement, according to an annual Fidelity
>Investment study released this week" (Robert Powell, "Paying for
>Health Care in Retirement," 9 March 2006,
><http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/pipermail/lbo-talk/Week-of-Mon-20060306/033498.html>).
>$200,000!  I felt like killing myself on reading that.  :-0

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