One person's take on Professor Ernest Becker's historical magnum opus, "The Denial of Death" (1973).
"We are going to die. All of us. No exceptions. Yet, we deny this fact. Run away from it. Tacitly agree to ignore it. Then deny that we did any of this, or that anything out of the ordinary happened."
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