Anonymous #53 — What Would It Take to Accept That You're Going to Die? (2-Year Anniversary)

The caller was five or six when they started lying awake at night, scared of death. What frightened them was the idea of not existing at all. That wasn't something a kid could bring up to adults, so they mostly thought about it alone. Around the same time, their mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was the 1980s, and nobody explained much to the kids. When the cancer came back years later, the caller figured she'd get better, because she had before. A few days before their 14th birthday, ...