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Dave Underwood · @daveunderwood
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'A sense of fulfillment, a feeling that life has been well lived, mitigates against the terror of death.'

― Irvin D. Yalom

#meaning #purpose #deathterror #deathanxiety #deathawareness #mortalityawareness #mortalitysalience #death

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Dave Underwood · @daveunderwood
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'What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.'

― Ernest Becker

#death #deathanxiety #deathawareness #mortalityawareness #ernestbecker #mortalitysalience #deathterror #fearofdeath

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Dave Underwood · @daveunderwood
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'If there are no rules, no grand designs, nothing we must do, then we are free to do as we choose … But we are unprepared; it is too much to bear, anxiety clamours for release, and, at both individual and social levels, we engage in a frenetic search to shield ourselves from freedom.'

― Irvin D. Yalom

#freedom #anxiety #deathawareness #fear #deathanxiety #mortalityawareness #death #mortalitysalience

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Dave Underwood · @daveunderwood
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'The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it and so we must shrink from being fully alive.'

― Ernest Becker

#deathanxiety #fearofdeath #mortalityawareness #deathawareness #mortalitysalience

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Anton Bitel · @AntBit
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Memento mori: Amy Seimetz's bleakly satirical existential horror She Dies Tomorrow (2020) makes dread out of our mortality salience. Screens 4.30pm today at with intro by Lillian Crawford
projectedfigures.com/2021/01/0

#icalondon #horror #existentialangst #mortalitysalience #infection

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Dave Underwood · @daveunderwood
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Five Books - Fear of Death

This interview remains the best primer & introduction to understanding the fear of death that I know of. I'm still working my way through Sheldon Solomon's book recommendations. Highly recommend reading this interview!: fivebooks.com/best-books/fear-

#fearofdeath #deathterror #mortalitysalience

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