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

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

Every fear is fear of death.
 
— Wilhem Stekel

Quote Post: @lazenby

'[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: Ernest Becker

'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: Irvin D. Yalom

'If there are no rules, no grand designs, nothing we must do, then we are free to do as we choose … But we are unprepared; it is too much to bear, anxiety clamours for release, and, at both individual and social levels, we engage in a frenetic search to shield ourselves from freedom.'

― Irvin D. Yalom

Quote Post: Ernest Becker

'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

Quote Post: Irvin D. Yalom

'Death acts as a catalyst that can move one from one state of being to a higher one: from a state of wondering about how things are to a state of wonderment that they are. An awareness of death shifts one away from trivial preoccupations and provides life with depth and poignancy and entirely different perspective.'

― Irvin D. Yalom