Understand the rejection of death

Understand the rejection of death

What follows may sound rude and cold but is the truth. We socially reject death because it affects the productivity of our material world. Millions of people avoid talking about death because it is considered the end of a creative, productive life that generates daily...
Death, the end of life

Death, the end of life

Knowing that everything ends at any moment should allow us to live life fully, with our feet on the ground, without getting overwhelmed by small daily frustrations. It is important to accept that we are born to live and we live to die, but not because we have done...
Death through literature

Death through literature

There is a wide list of publications where the central theme may be death directly or the decline of life, old age and death, how to face grief, life after death.

In this sense we can mention the Swiss-American writer Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (1926 – 2004), who wrote several books dealing with the aforementioned issues.

Coping with death and mourning

One of the first recommendations to cope with the death of a loved one and the mourning is to realize that it is perfectly normal to feel sad, scared and discouraged. It is a period of adaptation to a new reality where a member of the family, the mate or a loved...
Thanatophobia, fear of death

Thanatophobia, fear of death

Almost everybody feels fear of death; no one wants to die or face the death of a loved one, the pet. Nevertheless, death is inevitable. The physical body reaches a point where the cells start to die and the functioning of every organ gets slower and finally stop. It...