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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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‘I want to go!’ How older people in Ghana look forward to death
TL;DR: Older people in a rural Ghanaian community indicated that they look forward to death, and saw death foremost as a welcome rest after a long and strenuous life.
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The life and death of creativity: The effects of mortality salience on self versus social-directed creative expression
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the hypothesis that mortality concerns will inhibit creative behavior that threatens social connections but will not undermine and may even facilitate creative behaviour that bolsters social connections and found that amplified concerns about mortality decreased creativity when the act was self-directed but not when it was community-directed.
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Near death experiences and death-related visions in children: implications for the clinician.
TL;DR: In the past 20 years an explosion of accounts of such experiences occurring to those surviving coma, cardiac arrest, and noninjurious near fatal brushes with death has been reported.
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An angry volcano? reminders of death and anthropomorphizing nature
TL;DR: This article examined whether existential concerns are implicated in anthropomorphizing nature and found that the tendency to anthropomorphize nature is a powerful and pervasive cognitive tendency, and the role of existential concerns in this tendency was examined.