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Suspension of Judgment (in the Context of Accepting Death)

The deliberate suspension of hasty judgments about death as an evil, enabling rational acceptance of its necessity.

In the Stoic practice of Memento Mori, not being overwhelmed by the phobos judgment (the instinctive fear of death), but instead preserving one's power of decision through apoché. This means withdrawing from the automatic emotional evaluation of death as something dreadful, and instead acknowledging only the objective fact: that dying is necessary and lies outside our control.