To face one's mortality is to recognize the significance of questions such as:

To face one's mortality is to recognize the significance of questions such as:

• A. Why was I born?
• B. How are life and death related?
• C. What is the meaning of my having lived?
• D. Where there is death, is there no life?

Answer: (C)

Facing mortality brings into sharp relief the need to interpret one's life; people search for meaning, shaping their experiences, relationships, and actions into a narrative that gives purpose to their years. The question about the meaning of having lived asks precisely that: What did this life signify, what values did I hold, and what legacy do I leave behind? It aligns with the central idea in existential psychology that meaning is a primary resource for coping with death awareness. The other prompts address origins, relationships between life and death, or paradoxes, rather than the personal significance and purpose of one’s life.

Facing mortality brings into sharp relief the need to interpret one's life; people search for meaning, shaping their experiences, relationships, and actions into a narrative that gives purpose to their years. The question about the meaning of having lived asks precisely that: What did this life signify, what values did I hold, and what legacy do I leave behind? It aligns with the central idea in existential psychology that meaning is a primary resource for coping with death awareness. The other prompts address origins, relationships between life and death, or paradoxes, rather than the personal significance and purpose of one’s life.