For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor…

Susan Sontag
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ✨ Susan Sontag (1979). Illness as metaphor, Vintage
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For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ✨ Susan Sontag (1979). Illness as metaphor, Vintage

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