Open confrontation with death, allows many patients to move…
Open confrontation with death, allows many patients to move into emotive existence that is richer than the one that experienced prior to their illness
— from The Landing (Death) · Happier by Ben-Shahar
In the book
The people who have been forced closest to their own descent — the ones handed a terminal diagnosis — almost never report that the knowledge ruined them. An open confrontation with death tends to move a person into a richer, more vivid existence than the one they had before they knew. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross spent her life at the bedsides of the dying, and what moved her most was the sudden serenity that so often arrived at the end. — The Landing (Death)