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I do not mind being 77, but to be 80 soon is a different matter. I have doubts that I will live that long because I am sick and definitely handicapped. Death, however, remains unconceivable for me as being nothing—totally nothing, a black hole in the universe.
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Grotjahn, M. (1985). Being Sick and Facing Eighty. In: The Race Against Time. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3481-9_21
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