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I do, to a degree.
The last four years I've stared my own mortality in the face three different occasions due to cancer. I made some peace with it. What I have always returns.
My reasons for feeling this way may not be similar to your doc, but I am not afraid of dying any longer. I have kids, both teenagers now. They are the only thing that gives me any sort of feeling of regret for the day when I am no longer here. I'm sure they would feel some loss at my dying but they are fully functional humans, for the most part, so my need to guide and give advice decreases as the time passes. My life isn't over, but even supposing I live to be 80, I've lived roughly 60% of my shelf life. It coming, and sooner rather than later.