Mortality usually hovers somewhere just outside our peripheral vision, though sometimes it rushes up into the crosshairs. Everyone has these times when the busy business of daily life loses its soporific effect and we have a moment of prescient clarity. Often, what we see isn't pretty: the end of life as we know it. Luckily, however, most of us experience this well before the proverbial moment of truth and have time to do something—something different or something that simply postpones the inevitable end.
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