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  • The Dance of Roles and the Silent Witness

    Life often feels like a stage on which I am endlessly shifting roles. When I travel for work and step into a workshop or meeting, I become the professional self—engaged, focused, fully absorbed in tasks, conversations, and responsibilities. In that moment, it feels as though this is the truest version of me, the role that…

  • Occupying Death: Why We Must Take Back the End of Life

    Death, once a part of everyday life and openly discussed within families and communities, has become a medical event hidden behind hospital curtains and euphemisms. Dr. Peter Saul, an intensive care specialist with decades of experience, challenges us to reclaim the dying process from the high-tech medicalized model that now dominates how we leave this…

  • The Lobby of Echoes: What David Eagleman’s “Metamorphosis” Tells Us About Death

    What if death wasn’t just the end? Not of breath, not of body, but of story. That’s the unsettling, poetic lens David Eagleman gives us in Metamorphosis, a story from his book Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. In a deceptively simple narrative, Eagleman transforms the abstract weight of mortality into a strangely mundane yet…