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This is a 7 page paper discussing Ernest Becker’s text “The Denial of Death”. Ernest Becker’s 1973 text “The Denial of Death” puts forth the premise that man’s preoccupation with his own mortality forces him to repress this possibility and in doing so adopts a belief system in order to be accepted into an “immortality system” for support and for the belief that life exists beyond current perception. For those people who are overly consumed by death and are unable to form a belief or a level of acceptance, they are victim to neurosis or mental illness. Others who accept death and are able to live successfully with the knowledge and acceptance of their eventual outcome can be considered heroic. Because the denial of death is responsible for the formation of cultures, scientific processes should not be used to influence this psychological process because man truly does know little about the ultimate foundations of life.
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adopts a belief system in order to be accepted into an "immortality system" for support and for the belief that life exists beyond current perception. For those people who are
overly consumed by death and are unable to form a belief or a level of acceptance, they are victim to neurosis or mental illness. Others who accept death and are
able to live successfully with the knowledge and acceptance of their eventual outcome can be considered heroic. Because the denial of death is responsible for the formation of cultures, scientific
processes should not be used to influence this psychological process because man truly does know little about the ultimate foundations of life. While
many anthropologists, sociologists, philosophers and psychologists study the prospect of death which at often times seems to consumes the human mind, Ernest Becker in his opening preface to his text
"The Denial of Death" (1973) comments that the main thesis of his book "does much more than that" the idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal
like nothing else; it is the mainspring of human activity - activity designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it
is the final destiny for man" (Becker, 1973, p. ix). While the basis of his theory may explore that mans anxiety stems from his fear of death, it is also
important in the understanding of human nature and the development of cultures (The Denial of Death, 2002). Beckers text basically focuses on how humans develop strategies to make them feel
mortal and vulnerable to eventually escape the feeling that we are somehow mortal. This contrasts philosophers such as Socrates who believed that humans were not morally mature until considered "the
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