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Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out.Has anyone described the fear of dying more vividly than the 19th-century Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy in The Death of Ivan Ilyich? In that novella, published in 1886, the protagonist lives the conventional, prosperous life of a Russian bourgeois. With little thought about life’s deeper meanings, he fills his days with the preoccupations of his family’s social position, his professional success, and his personal amusements.But then Ivan Ilyich develops a mysterious ailment, which gradually worsens, confining him to bed. When it becomes apparent that he is dying, he is thrown into a profound existential crisis. “He struggled as a man condemned to death struggles in the hands of an executioner, knowing there is no escape,” writes Tolstoy. “And he felt that with every minute, despite his efforts to resist, he was coming closer and closer to what terrified him.” The story describes the horror and sadness of Ivan’s predicament with astonishing precision.Death is inevitable, of course; the most ordinary aspect of life is that it ends. And yet, the prospect of that ending feels so foreign and frightening to us. The American anthropologist Ernest Becker explored this strangeness in his 1973 book, The Denial of Death, which led to the development by other scholars of “terror management theory.” This theory argues that we fill our lives with pastimes and distractions precisely to avoid dealing with death. As Tolstoy’s novella chronicles, this phenomenon is one of the most paradoxical facets of human behavior—that we go to such lengths to avoid attending to a certainty that affects literally every single person, and that we regard this mundane certainty as an extraordinary tragedy.If we could resolve this dissonance and accept reality, wouldn’t life be better? The answer is most definitely yes. We know this because of the example of people who have accepted death and, in so doing, have become fully alive. With knowledge, practice, and courage, you can do this too.[From the November 1891 issue: Count Tolstoy at home]A commonly held belief is that if and when someone learns that they are going to die, psychologically they deal with the grief involved in a series of clear, ordered steps: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. This sequence comes from the famous work of the Swiss American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, who devised this model for her 1969 best seller, On Death and Dying. This study had such extensive impact that the New York Public Library named it one of its “Books of the Century” in the mid-1990s.As influential as it was, Kübler-Ross’s formula for coming to terms with dying did not actually make death easier for people to accept. One problem was that her model was interpreted in overly mechanistic and prescriptive ways by popularizers who suggested that you had to march through these stages in the fixed order. Another problem is that the experience, in her telling, is a progression of pretty much unrelieved negativity: It’s all grief, and even the final acceptance sounds essentially like a grim kind of resignation. From this, you might well conclude that distraction is indeed the best strategy—why face death unless and until you have to?More recent work does not support the “fixed order” interpretation of the Kübler-Ross model. To begin with, researchers have shown that not everyone passes through all of her stages, and that people frequently regress in them and jump around—a point that Kübler-Ross herself made later in her career. In a paper published in 2007 in the journal JAMA, scholars found that denial or disbelief occurred only rarely, and that acceptance was where most dying people spent most of their time.These findings also hold true for those who experience grief after losing a loved one, according to researchers writing in The British Journal of Psychiatry in 2008 who conducted a 23-month study of “bereaved individuals.” Initially after a bereavement, an individual experienced a higher level of yearning, depression, and anger, but after four months on average, these feelings declined steadily. From the start, however, the participants also displayed a level of acceptance that was higher than any of these negative emotions, and this rose continuously as well. By the study’s end, peaceful acceptance far outweighed all other feelings.Other research confirms that many people facing death are far more positive about the prospect than almost anyone would expect. In a 2017 study titled “Dying Is Unexpectedly Positive,” my Harvard colleague Michael I. Norton and his co-authors showed that people with a terminal illness or on death row wrote about their predicament in more positive terms and using fewer negative words than people who were not in that situation but were asked to write about it as if they were.Several factors explain why a positive acceptance of impending death may be so common. One 2013 Spanish study found that terminally ill patients tended to reevaluate their life and experiences in a positive light while also embracing acceptance. Many of these patients enjoyed new forms of personal growth in their final months, through placing greater value on simple things and focusing on the present.Interestingly, the potential benefits of facing death directly can also be found among a very different group of people: those who have had near-death experiences. As a rule, these survivors had no chance to arrive at a calm acceptance of death—typically because, unlike terminal-cancer patients, they had no time to do so in a sudden life-threatening emergency. What they had in common, though, was being confronted with their mortality—and finding that paradoxically positive. One study from 1998 showed that after a near-death experience, people became less materialistic and more concerned for others, were less anxious about their own death whenever that time would come, and enjoyed greater self-worth.[Read: Doctors don’t know how to talk about death]One irony about death, then, is that it remains most fearsome when most remote: When we are not forced to confront it in the immediate future, mortality is a menacing phantasm we try not to think about. But such avoidance brings no benefits, only costs. When the prospect of dying is concrete and imminent, most people are able to make the fact life-enhancing through acceptance. The real problem with death is that it messes up our being alive until it’s right in front of us.So what if we were able to realize the benefit of facing death without it actually being imminent? Or, put another way: How can we use a positive acceptance of death to help us be more alive while we still have the most life left?In theory, we should all be able to do this, because we’re all in a terminal state. We are all going to die; we just don’t yet know when. Lacking this precise knowledge is probably what makes it hard for us to focus on the reality of our ultimate nonbeing, and we have a good idea as to why: Neuroscientists have shown that abstract worry about something tends to mute the parts of the brain responsible for evoking vivid imagery. When your demise seems in some far-off future, you can’t easily grasp the granular fact of it, so you don’t.The secret to benefiting from your death right now, therefore, is to make it vivid and concrete. This is exactly what Buddhist monks do when they undertake the maranasati (“mindfulness of death”) meditation. In this practice, the monks imagine their corporeal self in various states of decline and decomposition while repeating the mantra “This body, too, such is its nature, such is its future, such its unavoidable fate.”The Stoic philosophers had a similar memento mori exercise, as Seneca urged: “The person who devotes every second of his time to his own needs and who organizes each day as if it were a complete life neither longs for nor is afraid of the next day.” Catholics hear a comparable spiritual injunction when they receive a mark made with ashes on their foreheads on Ash Wednesday: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”No matter what religious or philosophical tradition you adhere to, a practice like one of these is worth incorporating into your own routine. You can write your own maranasati or memento mori, say. Or, as an easier way to start, on your birthday or an annual holiday, work out roughly how many you may have left and ask yourself whether you’re really spending your scarce time the way you want.Being mindful of mortality in this more vivid, concrete way will help you find a greater measure of that positive acceptance—and use that to be more fully alive right now. And this will help you make choices that affect other people besides yourself: At your next family gathering, consider how many more such reunions you’d want to spend with your parents or other aging relatives. Think of an actual number. Then think of what you would need to do to increase that number—by making more of an effort to travel, or by moving to live closer, or by hosting the occasion yourself?[Read: Death has two timelines]Tolstoy’s genius was not just in his ability to depict the terror of Ivan Ilyich’s death; he was also able to make real the bliss of his ultimate acceptance of death. As the weeks of his decline went by, Ivan began to see his wife’s efforts to keep up with society’s proprieties and conventions as trivial and tiresome, and he no longer regretted missing any of that. Finally, “he searched for his accustomed fear of death and could not find it,” writes Tolstoy. Ivan’s death is no tragedy at all, but the most natural thing in the world.Even then, though, Tolstoy is not done; he ends with a true coup de grâce. At the very moment of his death, Ivan has an epiphany that might be the most consequential insight of all. As he is fading, he hears someone say, “It is finished.” In this last flickering moment of consciousness, Ivan considers what exactly is finished. Not his life, he decides, for it dawns on him: “Death is finished … It is no more!” And then, in peace, he slips away.

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here.Early-career poetry poses tantalizing questions: How did this poet start off so terribly—and end up so good? Or, more rarely: How did they start off so good—and get so much better? But a writer’s final works are compelling for a different reason: They offer not a preview or a draft, but an opportunity to reflect, sometimes with a critical eye, on past ideas and commitments.The American poet Wallace Stevens published his last work in The Atlantic in April 1955, four months before he died of stomach cancer. “July Mountain” is an homage to Vermont in the summer—surprising, perhaps, for this poet with a “mind of winter.” It’s also a digest, in 10 lines, of Stevens’s lifelong preoccupations, and a clear expression of his desire to make order out of a chaotic, suffocating world. Like many poems shadowed by mortality, “July Mountain” has what the late literary critic Helen Vendler called “binocular vision,” focused on both life and death. This, according to Vendler, is the peculiar power of a poet’s final works.Knowing the end was near, Stevens wanted to look at things as a whole to understand how the parts of his life fit together. The poem starts by describing life as a messy, mixed-up place, which he calls, metaphorically, a “constellation / Of patches and of pitches.” Nothing belongs where it is; everything is held together like a quilt, or a cacophony of sounds.Stevens is hardly alone in his poetic end-of-life musings. His contemporary, the Irish poet W. B. Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January 1939, the month of his death at age 73. In this apocalyptic depiction of writer’s block, Yeats, who frequently wrote about people he knew, stares at a blank page, desperate for a topic.He worries that his poetry has reduced the real people in his life—such as the Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne—to circus animals, and he looks back on his Nobel Prize–winning poetry with a shudder: “Players and painted stage took all my love / And not those things that they were emblems of.” But in the process of revisiting and renouncing his favorite images, Yeats constructed an exquisite, moving piece of verse—and a kind of exorcism, too, which left him, in the poem’s memorable final image, with the “foul rag and bone shop of the heart.”Late poems like Yeats’s make unexpected gestures of renewal, even as they acknowledge that things are swiftly coming to an end. Nikki Giovanni, who died last month at age 81, ruminated on her legacy in “The Coal Cellar.” The poem, published in The Atlantic in 2021, follows Giovanni down to her grandparents’ cellar, in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Her poem extends a long tradition of poems that take place underground, though this is the only one I can think of that is set in an Appalachian cellar.) Giovanni’s guide is her grandmother, who uncovers a box with a blackened sterling-silver spoon and fork belonging to her great-grandmother, the “first person born free.”The poem asks a binocular question: What has the poet inherited? And what might others inherit from her words? For Giovanni, the gift isn’t something material: Maybe not a big bank account or trust fundAnd certainly not any property but I inheritedA morning and a great deal of knowledgeIn a cold coal cellarWith my grandmother What she brings up from the cellar is a promise to her grandmother to polish the silver, a commitment to carry the knowledge of the past. In an essay published shortly after Giovanni’s death, my colleague Jenisha Watts wrote that the poet “saw her knowledge and experience as things she wanted to pass along, so that others might be able to speak after she was gone.”The challenge of a late poem is to find a symbol like Giovanni’s—silver, retrieved from a coal cellar—that helps the poet frame or englobe their life. In the last two lines of “July Mountain,” Stevens comes up with the perfect solution: a view from a mountain, where the climber can face death with awe and astonishment at the way a life “throws itself” together, like a landscape seen, at last, from the highest point.The ending of his poem isn’t sad or melancholy, but it is final (we can’t climb any higher) and a little resigned (we are spectators of what our life has become, and perhaps we were spectators, with partial views, all along). Yet the image that remains is one of abundance and wonder—at the sudden panoramic view of Vermont in the summer, as though everything that was the past is here again at once, while the eyes take in the canopy of green, the color of beginning.

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