Ernest Becker's 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner would agree with you [1]; in fact, the theory goes so far as to state that all of human culture is designed around av

Ernest Becker's 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner would agree with you [1]; in fact, the theory goes so far as to state that all of human culture is designed around avoidance of death, and even avoidance of the acceptance of the reality of true, complete death. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death