The Denial Of Death by Ernest Becker (review)

[@CarlosMelo-mf1tj]

Hi Martin! Great review and interesting thoughts at the end. This book is really good (just like The Birth and Death of Meaning, also by Becker). If I could make two suggestions, I would recommend The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life by Sheldon Solomon, and the KZbin video "The Perspective That Changed My Fear of Death" by Like Stories of Old. The book is, I would say, a revision of Becker's theory and also presents numerous new psychological tests designed to probe Becker's ideas. It's really excellent. The video is a video essay that thoughtfully and beautifully touches on this very difficult topic - our own mortality and the mortality of our loved ones. Thank you for your hard work and wonderful content. Cheers from Brazil! I can't wait to read your book (it's the next one on my list)!

[@LiteratureMartin]

Thanks for the wonderful comment and for giving my book a chance! 😊

[@Chris-wj8fz]

I am a palliative care specialist. I am australian and just returned from 20 years in uk. I am 72 years old not retired yet Cultural interpretations of and experience of death and dying are vastly different but our " industry" cannot cope with that at all

[@LiteratureMartin]

Thank you for doing such an important job, and that’s a real shame

[@Chris-wj8fz]

@LiteratureMartin the British view on death is Australian view is so opposed. Euthanasia and assisted suicide/dying in Australia is liberal but very conservative in London england

[@Chris-wj8fz]

Even an afro/ Caribbean perspective is handled badly in English hospitals and hospices because suffering is interpreted as a service to christ

[@LiteratureMartin]

@@Chris-wj8fzinteresting, thanks for sharing

[@Ou10101]

You should be professor somewhere 😂 (must be)

[@LiteratureMartin]

Haha, very generous comment!