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    Challenges→It might be possible to make death not bad for us by suitably preparing ourselves.

    Thanatizing desires does not eliminate the badness of death but merely prevents the subject from recognizing that badness, analogous to how a patient rendered incapable of feeling pain is not thereby unharmed by injury.

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    Badness of death(as used in philosophy of death)
    The idea that death itself is inherently harmful or negative for the person who dies, independent of pain or suffering.
    Thanatizing desires(as used in philosophy of death and ethics)
    The practice of training yourself to want death less, or to suppress your natural fear and desire to avoid death.
    analogous(as used in logic and philosophy)
    Similar in important ways; if two things are analogous, what's true about one should be true about the other.
    subject(Logical/grammatical ontology in Eisagoge)
    Either a sound signifying a meaning or a meaning signified by a certain sound

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