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Some old people are oppressed by the fear of death. In the young there is a justification for this feeling. Young men who have reason to fear that they ill be killed in battle may justifiably feel bitter in the though that they have been cheated of the best things that live has to offer. But in an old man who has known, joys and sorrow, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do the fear of death is somewhat object an ignorable. The best way to overcome it so at least it seems to me is to make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past boulders and over waterfalls, Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more qulitly, and in the end, without any visible break they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. The man who, in old age, can see his live in this way, will not suffer from the fear of death, since the things he cares for will continue.

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