Article: The first thing to determine when dealing with a fear of death is how – and how much – your fear affects your life. We are not often immediately aware of the environmental triggers or causes of our fears and anxiety. Writing about the situations in which they arise can be a helpful tool for working through these issues.  Start by simply asking yourself, “What was going on around me when I started feeling afraid or anxious in that moment?” For a number of reasons, this can be a very difficult question to answer at first. Start with the basics. Think back over the last few days and write down as many details as you can remember about the times you thought about death. Include exactly what you were doing when the thoughts arose. The fear of death is very common. Throughout human history, people have been concerned and preoccupied with the idea of death and dying. This can happen for several reasons, including your age, your religion, your level of anxiety, the experience of loss, and so on. For example, during certain transitional phases in your life, you may be more prone to having a fear of death. People may have a deeper preoccupation with death in the ages 4-6, 10-12, 17-24, and 35-55. Scholars have long philosophized about the prospect of death. According to the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, death can be a source of fear for people precisely because it is that which “comes to us from the outside and transforms us into the outside.”  The process of death, therefore, represents to us the most radical unknown dimension imaginable (or, in a sense, unimaginable). As Sartre points out, death has the potential to transform our living bodies back into the non-human realm from which they initially emerged. Next, write down any of the times you can remember deciding not to do something because you were afraid or anxious. Write down instances even if you aren't sure about whether or not the emotions were necessarily related in any way to death or dying. After you have one list of thoughts of death and one list of anxious moments, look for commonalities between the two. For example, you might notice that every time you see a particular brand of candy you feel some degree of anxiety, but you're not sure why. Then you realize that you think about death during these same situations. You might remember that the brand of candy in question was served at your grandparent's funeral. Then you also began feeling some degree of fear at the thought of death in general. Such connections, between objects, emotions, and situations, can be quite subtle, sometimes even more so than the scenario described above. But writing them down can be a great way to start becoming more aware of them. Then you can better influence how you manage the way you're affected in such moments. Fear is a potent force that can potentially influence just about anything you do. If you can start to look beyond your fear, you may find that the actual event you're dreading is not as terrible as think it is. Anxiety is usually wrapped up in anticipation about how things will or won't go. It is an emotion that looks to the future. Keep reminding yourself that fear of death is sometimes worse than death itself. Who knows, your death may not be as unpleasant as you imagine it to be. Be completely honest and fully face the fact of your own mortality. It will eat away at you until you do. Life becomes much more valuable when its temporarily is realized. You know that you will face death sometime, but you don't have to live life in fear. When you are honest with yourself and face your fear head-on, you will be able to start deconstructing this phobia.
Question: What is a summary of what this article is about?
Write down the times when you think about death. Make note of when you feel anxious or afraid. Compare your anxiety with thoughts of death. Recognize the link between anxiety and anticipation. Be honest with yourself.
Article: To get the fermentation process started, you’ll need to mix the ingredients twice a day for the initial 48 hours, but not past that period. Make sure any utensils you use to stir the mixture are fully sanitized so you don’t introduce any bacteria into the container or the mead. Stir the mixture for about 2 minutes or so, and be sure to seal the container when you are done. If you are fermenting the mead in a carboy or a container with a narrow opening at the top, you can lightly shake the container to mix it. During the fermentation process, a layer of sediment will form at the bottom of the container. Use a siphoning hose or tube to transfer the mead into another clean container to separate it from the sediment. Place the container of mead on a higher surface level, insert a siphon hose in the mead, and shake the hose up and down to start the flow of liquid into a clean container below it.  Place the siphoning tube at the top of the liquid so you don’t transfer any sediment. The clean container should be large enough able to hold all of the mead. If the new container does not have a rubber stopper and airlock, you can clean the sediment out the original container, sanitize it, and add the mead back into it to continue fermenting. Check the ABV again with the hydrometer to track the progress of the fermentation. Make sure the new container is sterilized. Once you’ve siphoned the mead and separated it from the sediment in the container, seal the new container with an airlock to allow the gasses to escape. Store the container in a warm dry place for a few weeks to continue the fermentation process. Eventually, sediment will collect on the bottom of that container as well, siphon the liquid into another clean container to separate it from the sediment again. Siphoning, or “racking,” to separate the mead from the collected sediment may need to be repeated several times during the fermentation process. Repeat the racking process until your mead is clear and no longer cloudy. After your mead has fermented for at least a few weeks, it may be ready for bottling. But you need to take another reading with your hydrometer to confirm that the alcohol by volume (ABV) is where you want it to be. Different tasting meads will have different readings:  Dry tasting mead will read between 0.099 to 1.006. Medium tasting mead that is slightly sweet and slightly dry will read between 1.006 to 1.015. Sweet mead will fall between 1.012 to 1.020. Very sweet dessert mead will read anywhere past 1.02. Once your mead is finished and ready for final bottling, use a siphon to transfer the mead from the container. Put a length of tubing from the container of mead to the bottom of the empty bottle, shake the hose up and down in the mead to start the flow, and fill the bottles from the bottom up to minimize exposure to oxygen. Cap or cork the bottles as soon as you finish filling them. You can enjoy the mead whenever you like, but the longer it ages, the more flavorful it will be.  The bottles and equipment must be sanitized to avoid tainting or spoiling the mead. Stored in a cool place away from direct sunlight, your mead can last up to 2 years!
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Stir the container twice a day for the first 48 hours to begin fermentation. Wait 10 days then siphon the mead into a clean container from the top. Seal the clean container and allow it to sit for at least 4 weeks. Check the ABV of your mead before you bottle it. Fill your bottles from the bottom up.