A Psychiatric look at Bomb Shelters
Haun, P.
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 61: 3-7
1964
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-7524 PMID: 14105284 Document Number: 8081
1. Death and life are opposite sides of the same coin. When we say "Yes" to one we inevitably affirm the other. The attempted avoidance of death regardless of the human costs at once takes us into the unreal land of fantasy and the meaningless rituals of magic. 2. Man is less than human when he denies his true nature, when his cardinal goal is materialistic, when he willingly exchanges belief in a supra-personal ideal for the animal trance of biologic survival and the pottage of protoplasmic security. 3. A genuine holocaust in the event is simply death with a fancy name. It must be met with the same personal courage, the same resignation with which as individuals we face the termination of our several lives. 4. If we elect to live during the span each of us may have, if we choose to preserve our world, the future of our culture and the heritage of our children, then our common effort will be wisely directed toward the certain arrest of global catastrophe, toward the prevention of the holocaust, toward the erection of an impregnable barrier to atomic war.
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