How to Deal With the Fear of Dying

How to Deal With the Fear of Dying
Living each day to its fullest, as if it were the last, ensures no regrets. Fei Meng
Jeff Minick
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“If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?”

That challenge from Stephen Levine, author of such books as “Who Dies?” and “One Year to Live,” brings many readers to a dead stop (pun intended). A few might crack a joke—“I would call a priest”—as people often use humor to deflect their fear of death.

Jeff Minick
Jeff Minick
Author
Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
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