The Surprising Ways Death Shapes Our Lives
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Okay, how would you caption this image?Joe?“You guys have anything other than Cat Fancy Magazine around here? Woof”Anna?"I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’re adopted.”So researchers asked this question in a 2013 study. But just before they asked, some participantswere instructed to think about death.The researchers found the participants who were asked to think about death wrote funniercaptions. Meaning an independent panel sat down and judged their captions to be morehumourous. Thinking about death has all kinds of effects on your life that you might notexpect.Back in 1973 Ernest Becker published “The Denial of Death”, where he argues that“all human action is taken to ignore or avoid the anxiety generated by the inevitabilityof death
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Okay, how would you caption this image?Joe?“You guys have anything other than Cat Fancy Magazine around here? Woof”Anna?"I don’t know how to tell you this, but you’re adopted.”So researchers asked this question in a 2013 study. But just before they asked, some participantswere instructed to think about death.The researchers found the participants who were asked to think about death wrote funniercaptions. Meaning an independent panel sat down and judged their captions to be morehumourous. Thinking about death has all kinds of effects on your life that you might notexpect.Back in 1973 Ernest Becker published “The Denial of Death”, where he argues that“all human action is taken to ignore or avoid the anxiety generated by the inevitabilityof death
