We fear death, as we are loss averse and our impulses generally favor survival. Thus we tend to repress it. The psychologist Rollo May noted that “a repression of death is a fundamental characteristic ...

Reading this article could temporarily change your politics, biases and decision-making – it might even make you want to be famous. Why? The very idea of death changes our thoughts in profound ways.

We fear death, as we are loss averse and our impulses generally favor survival. Thus we tend to repress it. The psychologist Rollo May noted that, “a repression of death is a fundamental ...

The other day, I was sitting on a park bench at the playground with my son, agonizing over a work issue. Had I come off as rude on that Zoom call? Maybe I shouldn’t have been so emphatic. I pulled out ...

Death, like taxes, is a fact of life. We are born and eventually, we will die. Though it is not particularly healthy (I guess) to contemplate death or mortality with the frequency that I do, I am ...

What you think and feel matters, if only because it guides your actions and words. But here’s the thing: What you say isn’t a reflection of just your thoughts and feelings. A study published in Pain ...

When asked by a disciple about death, Confucius replied: “We don’t even know about life. How can we know about death?” In the Katha Upanishad, the boy Nachiketas is granted a boon by Yama, the god of ...