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Mortality salience
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Mortality salience is the awareness that one's death is inevitable and that all attempts to defer it indefinitely are ultimately futile.
Hamlet contemplates the skull of Yorick, Hamlet (1913).
Hamlet contemplates the skull of Yorick, Hamlet (1913).
Death
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Death is the end of life. It is the irreversible cessation of biological functions that sustain a living organism; however, the identification of the moment of death presents certain difficulties. Som
Mortality salience
…Mortality salience is the awareness that one's death is inevitable and that all attempts to defer it indefinitely are ultimately futile. The term derives from terror management theory, which proposes the…
The human skull is used universally as a symbol of death.
The human skull is used universally as a symbol of death.
French 16th-/17th-century ivory pendant, Monk and Death, recalling mortality and the certainty of death (Walters Art Museum)
French 16th-/17th-century ivory pendant, Monk and Death, recalling mortality and the certainty of death (Walters Art Museum)
American children smoking in 1910. Tobacco smoking caused an estimated 100 million deaths in the 20th century.
American children smoking in 1910. Tobacco smoking caused an estimated 100 million deaths in the 20th century.
Le Suicidé by Édouard Manet
Le Suicidé by Édouard Manet