Comic #5849: mortality

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Here’s a transcription of the text from the comic:

Panel 1:
"Philosophers have gotten death 100% wrong forever. Understanding mortality is a crock of shit!"

Panel 2:
"The modern science of behavior shaping shows that you acquire a skill not by attacking it directly but by mastering intermediate steps."

Panel 3:
"The key to dying well is to actively, daily, approach death! Start with death of hope. Once you have that, move to death of happiness. Then death of limitations, death of standards, death of love."

Panel 4:
"Shakespeare has Caesar say 'Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.' Point is, if you get the equivalent of one practice death a day, that’s almost 3 years of training, for free. Just by being a coward!"

Panel 5:
"You’re willfully misunderstanding philosophy, literature, and human life in general."

Panel 6:
"Thank you! I killed sense just this morning!"

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