# The Denial of Death
|  | **The Denial of Death** is a 1973 book by American cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker which discusses the psychological and philosophical implications of how people and cultures have reacted to the concept of death. The author argues most human action is taken to ignore or avoid the inevitability of death. |
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| | wikipedia:: [The Denial of Death](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death) |
[[Terror Management Theory]]
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## Also By Or In Or Of `= this.file.name`
```dataview
TABLE WITHOUT ID
file.link AS Name, by AS By, in AS In, of AS Of, date AS Date, year AS Year
FROM #Type
WHERE
(
(
any(contains(by, this.by))
AND
by
)
OR
(
any(contains(in, this.in))
AND
in
)
OR
(
any(contains(of, this.of))
AND
of
)
OR
(
any(contains(in, this.file.name))
OR
any(contains(in, this.file.link))
)
OR
(
any(contains(of, this.file.name))
OR
any(contains(of, this.file.link))
)
AND
file.name !=this.file.name
)
SORT file.etags DESC, date DESC, year DESC
```