Posts Tagged ‘death’

Existential Resistance: Direct Action in the War on Denial

We’re all going to die!
Sorry… in the first of my series of nice ideas and general acts of intelligence, I present a series of stickers by the Existential Resistance Army. Intended to interrupt daily life with messages designed to create cognitive dissonance in the minds of the mindless, these stickers should help us all remember [...]

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, [...]