What would you want the people you love to know about how you lived — that they might not already know?
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Why This Card
The Lancet Commission found that death has been removed from everyday life, leaving families without the language, skills, or confidence to discuss what matters most. This card invites that conversation — gently, and before it's urgent.
Your Reflection
Mind
Body
Spirit
How to Play
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Gather
2–8 players. Sit in a circle. Choose a deck or draw from all. Designate a gentle facilitator.
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Draw
One player draws a card and reads it aloud. A moment of silence before anyone responds.
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Reflect
Each person may respond, pass, or simply listen. No debate — only witnessing.
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Record
Write in the journal space. Insights can become advance care plans, letters, or simply remembered.
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Close
End each session with a breath, a word of thanks, or a small shared ritual of your choosing.
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Listen
Receive what others share without advice or analysis. Presence is the practice.
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Keep
Save your reflection to the diary. Over time, your entries become a record of interior life.
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Return
Come back again. Mortality is not a one-time conversation. Each session opens something new.
Facilitation Guide
There are no wrong answers. The goal is reflection, not resolution.
Silence is welcome. Allow time to sit with the question before anyone speaks.
Pass is always an option — participation is never compelled.
One person speaks at a time. Listen without planning your response.
After the group speaks, invite each person to write privately in the Reflection Panel below the card. This is their space — it need not be shared.
The Mind · Body · Spirit fields invite players to locate how this card landed — not just what they thought, but what they felt and sensed. Encourage them to use their own words if none of the offered ones fit.
Pressing Save to Diary adds the reflection to the Library of Reflections — a private, growing archive organized by date, time, and place. Over sessions, it becomes a record of interior life.
At the close of a session, you may choose to open the Library together — not to read aloud, but simply to witness that something was recorded. The act of keeping is itself a form of care.
The Library of Reflections
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✦All questions have been met with words.
Your responses have been read together. An interpretation follows — grounded in the Augmento Mori framework and the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death.
Reading your reflections…
Your saved reflections will appear here — gathered by date, place, and time.