Death gets a bad press. Invariably the unwelcome visitor, arriving too soon, he is feared and loathed:' "the last enemy" in the words of the Bible. But a few poets and philosophers throughout history have argued that without death we would be at a loss. It's the prospect of his coming that gets us out of bed in the morning and drives us to great deeds. Now a growing body of evidence from social psychology suggests that these thinkers are right.
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