The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

Becker's thesis is that human beings are animals who know they will die, that this knowledge is unbearable, and that nearly everything we build — religion, careers, nations, art, romantic love — exists to give us a way of feeling that we will continue.

He calls these immortality projects, and much of the book is spent showing how they explain behaviour that otherwise makes no sense: why people will die for a flag, why heroism is a psychological necessity, why a person will destroy their life rather than lose their sense of significance.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, awarded two months after Becker's own death. The foundation of terror management theory.

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