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Pieters calmness as he wrote these two last pieces is admirable. As an existential thanataphobe[1] I'd love to understand a bit more on how he's come to this le
by datamoshr 10y ago
Pieters calmness as he wrote these two last pieces is admirable. As an existential thanataphobe[1] I'd love to understand a bit more on how he's come to this level of serenity and acceptance.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_anxiety_(psychology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_anxiety_(psychology)
- Delmania 10y agoWhat choice did he have? He probably went through the classic 7 stages of grief. In the end, his death was inevitable (as is all of ours), he just was faced with it as a reality as most of us think it is many years off.
- PieterH 10y agoHonestly, when I was told I had cancer five+ years ago, it was just the same. I understood the diagnosis rapidly, cooperated fully, and when they told me I would be operated (on my birthday, 2010), I realized I might live, and prepared myself for surgery. I never had any strong negative emotions about it.
- joncrocks 10y agoI think he's had a while to come to terms with it. He first got cancer in 2010 according to a blog post last year: http://hintjens.com/blog:109 http://hintjens.com/blog:109
- PieterH 10y agoIf you read my book The Psychopath Code you'll see my discussion on "grounding", which is a simple (yet hard) technique for keeping yourself free of destructive emotions. That book, BTW was absolutely panned on Reddit since I'm not a psychologist. I watched hundreds of comments telling me to fuck off, to kill myself, how did I dare discuss such things without credentials. And at the same time I watched my book sales spike up to 10 times more than ever before, and I chortled like a gleeful madman... Sometimes it's really just a matter of perspective and I'm usually good at finding the right perspective on things.