I am wondering, does your medical knowledge enable you to feel more comfortable and empowered re: life preservation and thus less of this sort of anxiety, or might it leads to be all to aware of so many what-ifs that can go wrong? Interesting connection you draw between whatever peace could be felt re: mortality and that "behavioural bias to complete things."

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Poetry by Sean O'Connor
Poetry by Sean O'Connor

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Philosophical, spiritual, erotic, political poetry by Sean O'Connor

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