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The Denial of Death
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The Denial of Death as mentioned in this paper is an answer to the "why" of human existence, which sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.Abstract:
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work,The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.read more
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The meaning of self-reported death anxiety in advanced cancer:
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TL;DR: Self-reported death anxiety is affected by the awareness and ability to reflect on mortality, which may facilitate exploration of this symptom as part of a clinical assessment and may serve to guide treatment approaches.
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A psychoanalytic-existential approach to burnout: Demonstrated in the cases of a nurse, a teacher, and a manager.
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Who's afraid of the dead? Archaeology, modernity and the death taboo
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that death is not taboo and that modern death scholars use archaeological source material as a way to understand the subtlety of the human experience Funerary archaeology is not a dangerous topic; rather it makes a very real and valuable contribution to modern society, providing one of the few ways that people can experience a corpse and so explore their own mortality and with it their place within the larger human story.
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Exploring the effects of self-esteem and mortality salience on proximal and distally measured death anxiety: a further test of the dual process model of terror management
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