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Death--some form of termination--is the universal ending of all living things but only man, by virtue of his verbally reportable introspective life, can conceptualize his own cessation.
Edwin S. Shneidman
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Edwin S. Shneidman
Age: 91 †
Born: 1918
Born: May 13
Died: 2009
Died: May 15
Psychologist
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