what should I do with my infant staff?

Page 365 what should I do with my infant staff? Hold my other loved ones and heal their pain. It is necessary to be strong in the face of death, because that is intrinsic for life. What should I do in the next day or moment? Focus my attention, and the next right move the flood is coming. The flight is always coming.

— from The Landing (Death) · 12 Rules for Life, An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson

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And what do the dying actually do with the gauge once they can read it? They hold the people they love and try to heal their pain; they understand that one must be strong in the face of death precisely because death is woven into the fabric of life. A man named David, I am told, would have given anything near the end to be stuck in one more ordinary traffic jam, one more slow line at the supermarket, one more maddening minute on hold — the very things the rest of us curse. — The Landing (Death)

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