Death Widget – what the world needs now?
A couple of years ago I read an amazing book. It was thrilling and terrifying and made...
Death Widget – what the world needs now?
A couple of years ago I read an amazing book. It was thrilling and terrifying and made me look at life in a new way. It is The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker.
Ernest Becker believed that people are massively affected by their fear of their own death:
“The knowledge of death is reflective and conceptual, and animals are spared it. They live and they disappear with the same thoughtlessness: a few minutes of fear, a few seconds of anguish, and it is over. But to live a whole lifetime with the fate of death haunting one’s dreams and even the most sun-filled days- that’s something else.”
