#48 - What If Death Feels Like Being Stuck Forever?
What if death feels like being stuck forever?
This call is about the kind of fear that doesn’t come from a specific event. It’s not grief. It’s not a story about losing someone. It’s just that sudden, spiraling dread some people get when they think about death and what might come after it.
The caller tries to put words to a very specific fear. Not pain, not darkness, but the idea of being conscious and trapped. Alone. Unable to escape. And as we talk, you can hear how hard it is to describe something like that without feeling isolated by it.
We don’t land on an answer, and we’re not trying to. What happens instead is smaller. The fear becomes clearer. It gets spoken out loud. And by the end, the caller says something simple that matters: talking about it helped.
Book recommendation: The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck); The Death Gate Cycle (Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman)
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