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Mortality

8 min read 10 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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What’s it about?

A dying atheist chronicles his cancer ordeal with razor wit, dismantling platitudes about mortality while clinging to reason, love, and the sheer stubbornness of consciousness.

You’ll learn

  • Cancer is not a battle but a rebellion within
  • False hope is an insult to the dying
  • The ordinary becomes precious at the end
  • The self is a temporary phenomenon