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Death and How to Be More Alive: Carl Jung on Immortality and the Rebirth of Middle Age

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Death and How to Be More Alive: Carl Jung on Immortality and the Rebirth of Middle Age
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Once, I spent a year walking Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery daily, winding between the marble tombs engulfed by tree-roots and emblazoned with the surnames of the dead, each followed by a full stop to demarcate the terminus of life. It hovers there, so sure of itself, this punctuational emblem of an irrevocable end. And yet the surety of science about what happens when we die, like the surety of religion, is only speculative, for it is conceived by the living. Whitman — who

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