# How do you cope with your own mortality?

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**Created:** [May 3, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-cope-with-your-own-mortality/657444 "2013-05-03T19:45:54Z")
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Robert Ringer, author of Winning Through Intimidation and Looking Out For #1 (the second book largely repudiates what he wrote in the first book), offers a philosophy he calls “The Iceball Theorem”:

[quoted from memory, so probably not his precise wording]  
A hundred billion [or whatever] years from now, when the Sun is a burned-out shell and Earth is nothing more than a cold frozen ice ball, _none of this will matter._  
[/quoted from memory, so probably not his precise wording]

ETA: His second book (mentioned above) is largely similar (even nearly a clone in some parts) of Harry Browne’s How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World.

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