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If We Were Dying, It Would Be Easier | What Grief Teaches Us About Being Alive

If We Were Dying, It Would Be Easier | What Grief Teaches Us About Being Alive

The Daily Stoic
30 oct 2026 19 min
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<p>If only we could, as Marcus Aurelius said, let everything we do and say be that of a dying person, then we would get so much more right.</p><br><p>Kate Bowler is a <a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/search?type=product&amp;q=kate+bowler*" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">four-time New York Times bestselling author</a>, award-winning podcast host, and professor of religious history at Duke University. 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