“5 Questions to Ask Yourself When You’re Facing Death”

When you’re faced with the knowledge that the end of your life is near, avoidance or denial is such a natural impulse that it seems absurd to be even be starting an article with this sentence. Of course no one wants to prepare for their own death, at least initially. And no one needs to be told that facing mortality is likely to trigger a dramatic self-reckoning, or at least, some rumination. Jill Cohen, a New York-based grief counselor, suggests that asking  certain questions can potentially help people who are dying do a final accounting as well as set priorities for how they want to spend the time they have left.