‘time is no longer a resource to be spent, but a medium in which to dwelll.The philosopher Martin Heidegger called this “being towards death”…he argued it is the essential catalyst for an authentic life. He suggested that we usually spend our days “falling”: getting lost in trivial noise and the performative expectations of others…When death is no longer a distant “some day” but a persistent, breathing neighbour, the ego’s vanities slowly evaporate’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/22/i-have-stage-four-cancer-there-will-be-no-cure-but-death-isnt-necessarily-imminent-this-is-how-it-feels-to-live-in-the-long-middle
By Janis Chen