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Re:"This is water, this is water." by tptacek on Sunday August 21, 2011 @05:49PM (#2910403)
Wallace didn't die from a lack of mindfulness. Wallace succumbed to unexpected and fatal drug withdrawal syndrome, after he and his doctors attempted to get him off the medicine that had kept him alive for over a decade.

And what any of this has to do with this essay, I still don't know. I stand by my assessment of this thread as stupid and mean.

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Re:"This is water, this is water." by Cushman on Sunday August 21, 2011 @05:57PM (#2910422)
He died of complications resulting from depression. Call it what you want.

The GP was stupid and mean, and I'm not trying to dispute that. Shoot, I called him a douchebag.

But it remains true that mindfulness can help with depression, while this speech is about thinking about mindfulness, which sadly doesn't help with anything. Mindfulness is a practice, not a philosophy.

From my perspective, that's tragic.

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