A pathologist's experience with attitudes toward death
Angrist, A.A.
Rhode Island Medical Journal 43: 693-697
1960
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-4627 PMID: 13683598 Document Number: 8149
A true mindfulness of death can become an incentive to a good life and can make for a controlled emotional acceptance of separation from our known surroundings and our loved ones. Refusal to accept the reality of death represents the most widespread modern instance of running away from reality. While allowing proper emphasis on the emotional comp(ment, it is essential to avoid harm to the personality of the living and pathological forms of behavior. Let us foster a rational satisfying equanimity for the event of death, and favor thereby the innate deep-rooted desire in all of us to live a creative life and to do some good which will live after us. We have seen what force can he unleashed by tapping hate and prejudice. Let us make creative life the positive, not fear of negative death, the focal point of existence on this earth. The determination of our objectives during life necessarily implies the proper orientation toward death. The fear of death is more to he dreaded than death itself.
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