Maybe before we get started and for the benefit of those who weren't following that other thread you could frame for us an initial direction of conversation.
What is it you're asking of us here?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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