In the question below, a sentence is given with two words missing. You are given five options each containing a pair of words that can or cannot be filled in the blanks to make the sentence contextually and grammatically correct. Identify the words that are similar in meaning and make the sentence contextually and grammatically correct. Here, these forms of birth anxiety are not so different from death anxiety after all, because death anxiety is likewise about my ongoing condition as a/an ______ being - I am always ______, which can always intervene to leave my projects interrupted and unfinished.