I think everyone alive now is wrestling with the burden of impending oblivion. We should talk about it more.

#MortalityAwareness #DeathAnxiety #MortalitySalience #MementoMori

'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

'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

'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

'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