We are all playing a game whose ending is already known.
Being Mortal reframes how I think about the self—not as something fixed to preserve, but as something reshaped by changing conditions.
In my brain health work, independence is often treated as the goal: cognition, function, autonomy.
But if independence is not an end state, then what are we trying to hold on to?
A quiet but important book. Still reading.
— Jul 04, 2026 10:06PM
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