#mortalityawareness — Public Fediverse posts
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I reviewed the books The Denial of Death, and Escape From Evil, both by Ernest Becker. I think, taken together, Denial of Death & Escape From Evil are the most important books I have read in the last 10 years.
https://oblivionwithbells.com/2024/09/30/book-review-the-denial-of-death-escape-from-evil/
#Bookreview #Psychology #ErnestBecker #Death #fearofdeath #anthropology #mortality #TMT #terrormanagementtheory #mortalitysaliency #mortalityawareness #mementomori #Literature #nonfiction #book #books #deathanxiety #existentialism
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Every fear is fear of death.
— Wilhem Stekel -
My top recommendations for books on understanding the fear of death: https://oblivionwithbells.com/best-books-on-understanding-the-fear-of-death/
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'[T]he thicket of mind and flesh, the one on fire with the awareness of death, of your grave-bound life. [A]nd above all, the awareness of the crumbling, meaningless insubstantiality of life lived only by your own lights. [T]hat burden is what … relationship[s] [can help relieve]'
― @lazenby on Tumblr
Source: https://www.tumblr.com/lazenby/693408280158093312/how-do-i-stop-being-so-horny-for-him-when-weve
#Death #DeathAwareness #MortalityAwareness #HumanCondition #Connection #Relationships #noxp
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Dame Deborah James talking about when she moved into end-of-life hospice care at home:
"I am not brave - I am not dignified going towards my death - I am simply a scared girl who is doing something she has no choice in but I know I am grateful for the life that I have had."
— Dame Deborah James 1982-2022
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'Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.'
― Arthur Schopenhauer