This “live like you were dying” stuff is shite, forgive me for saying so. This how people who will die but are not dying talk. This is what they imagine is possible, and it is what they want for others. It comes directly from that adolescent caper that most have been in on: If you found out that you had a week or a month to live, what would you do? Giddy excess is the almost universal reply. Dying people aren’t usually physically capable of extravagant excess, and they aren’t “living like they’re dying.” Mostly they are dying, and they don’t know how. They don’t have the words to say it. So we
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