We fear death, but what if dying isn’t as bad as we think?
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Research comparing perceptions of death with accounts of those imminently facing it suggest that maybe we shouldn’t worry so much about our own end.
By Jessica Brown
‘The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else,’ wrote Earnest Becker in his book, The Denial of Death. It’s a fear strong enough to compel us to force kale down our throats, run sweatily on a treadmill at 7am on a Monday morning, and show our genitals to a stranger with cold hands and a white coat if we feel something’s a little off...
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