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At Peace with Death: Reflections on Befriending the Inevitable

Contemplation, Culture, Mental Health / David Chang

We live in a society ruled by technocratic elites. Their latest preoccupation: immortality. For Silicon Valley tycoons, the prospect of life ever-lasting is no more than a question of advanced engineering, scientific knowledge, and technological mastery. In their innovation-driven subculture, immortality is merely another point in a long line of technical challenges bested by human […]

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Death, Sex, and the Middle Passage

Leave a Comment / Contemplation, Culture, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Reflection, Spirituality / David Chang

A few summers ago, the plants on my rooftop patio wilted after a long heat-spell. I was busy preparing my dissertation defence and neglected to water them consistently. Baking in the sun, the plants struggled in the swelter – Delphinium, Hosta, Nepeta, and Euphorbia all. However, I noticed that instead of shrivelling into crisp, they shed their flowers

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In Praise of Mortal Coil

Leave a Comment / Contemplation, Culture, Mental Health, Philosophy, Reflection, Spirituality / David Chang

Shakespeare described the human form as a “mortal coil” that we shuffle off in death. For Hamlet, life is a dreary work that holds neither mirth nor meaning. To slip the mortal coil is to find release from the sorrows that batter us. Yet, there may be another view of mortality that belies Hamlet’s bleak

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Faith without Belief: How to Face the Terror of Living

Leave a Comment / Contemplation, Mental Health, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Reflection, Spirituality / David Chang

One of the challenges of growing older is dealing with the panic that comes with time’s passing. The days might be long, but the weeks are short. The years are merciless. The slip of vanishing days catches us in terror. We realize that this march of mortality is indifferent to our protest, oblivious to our

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The Curse of Longevity

Leave a Comment / Reflection / David Chang

The Guardian recently reported that Moderna, one of the leading firms that developed the mRNA vaccine for COVID-19, is well on track to developing treatments for cancer, cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases. With research and manufacturing capacities accelerated by the pandemic, Moderna stated that vaccines will soon treat many diseases beyond infectious viruses. In the

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