{"id":29483,"date":"2026-03-22T13:30:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=29483"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:10:37","slug":"how-do-you-make-meaning-of-a-life-you-know-will-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2026\/03\/22\/how-do-you-make-meaning-of-a-life-you-know-will-end\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you make meaning of a life you know will end?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW032226-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"289\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AW032226-3.jpg\" alt=\"How do you make meaning of a life you know will end?\" class=\"wp-image-29478\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How do you make meaning of a life you know will end?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The hard but beautiful thing is that you get to choose. To paraphrase a BC professor (Kenneth Himes) maybe pick something you&#8217;re good at that the world needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hard but beautiful thing is that you get to choose. To paraphrase a BC professor (Kenneth Himes) maybe pick something you&#8217;re good at that the world needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29490,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29483\/revisions\/29490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}