In a March 14, 2018, interview on the “10% Happier Podcast,” Hansa Bergwall talked with Dan Harris about the new cell phone application that he and a friend created. The App is designed to send out a reminder notice five times a day. If you purchase and install it for $0.99, a box will periodically pop up on your cell phone screen saying, “Remember, you are going to die.” You have the option to click on the box for a quote from one of many different traditions on the subject of dying. Here is a sample quote from the App:
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it and face it squarely,
I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life –
And only then will I be free…
Martin Heidegger [WECROAK App]
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