Tag: Death anxiety

The best short-form practical guide to getting comfortable with death that I have read

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This great practical guide to getting comfortable with death was written by Rachel Menzies, who wrote a book about mortality awareness called Mortals with her father, Ross Menzies.

It’s a great article, but that doesn’t mean the advice in it is necessarily easy to follow! Here’s the link:

https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-deal-with-death-anxiety-with-the-help-of-cbt

How to get more comfortable with death Angst about mortality is part of being human, but if it’s interfering with your life, there are proven ways to dial it down by Rachel Menzies

Quote Post: Wilhem Stekel

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Every fear is fear of death. — Wilhem Stekel

Quote Post: @lazenby

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'[T]he thicket of mind and flesh, the one on fire with the awareness of death, of your grave-bound life. [A]nd above all, the awareness of the crumbling, meaningless insubstantiality of life lived only by your own lights. [T]hat burden is what … relationship[s] [can help relieve]' ― @lazenby on Tumblr

Source: https://www.tumblr.com/lazenby/693408280158093312/how-do-i-stop-being-so-horny-for-him-when-weve

Quote Post: Irvin D. Yalom

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'A sense of fulfillment, a feeling that life has been well lived, mitigates against the terror of death.' ― Irvin D. Yalom

Quote Post: Ernest Becker

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'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

Quote Post: Ernest Becker

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'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

Making a change means acknowledging the difference making the change earlier would have made

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From Existential Psychotherapy by Irvin Yalom:

‘To decide to change would entail accepting existential guilt‘

Change can often be good & powerful, but the existential guilt is often too powerful for all of us at different times in our lives. People can end up thinking “better to make no change and avoid having to deal with the truth.”

Quote Post: Superette

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"I'm gonna die I don't know why Never killed nothing Never hurt no one" — Lyrics from Killer Clown by Superette

Story Post: We are naturally insecure

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Story Post: We are naturally insecure

Quote Post: Steve Jobs

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Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ― Steve Jobs
Quote taken from Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford University Commencement address

Quote Post: Carl Sagan

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. ― Carl Sagan

Quote Post: Socrates

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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. ― Socrates

Story Post: How I know death anxiety is important

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Story Post: How I know death anxiety is important