Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-07-23]: Amy Winehouse is dead. All of us will die at some point. And yet we behave every day in such a way as if we have forgotten that fact. Every day we are trying to trick ourselves, to forget that we are mortals. And we actually do it. So when the time comes to die we are in panic. "This can't happen", we say...We strive with all our strength to prevent the inevitable. How philosophically correct is this behavior?
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