To lose a parent or a lifelong friend is often to lose the past: the person who died may be the only other living witness to golden events of long ago. But to lose a child is to lose the future: what is lost is no less than one's life project-what one lives for, how one projects oneself into the future, how one may hope to transcend death {indeed, one's child becomes one's immortality project}.
( Irvin D. Yalom )
[ Love's Executioner and Other ]
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