Our Fear of Death

  As human beings, we have a precious gift for which we also have to pay a high price: we can think for ourselves. What’s the cost? Our awareness of death. Once we become aware of our own finitude, there’s no turning back. From that moment on, the threat of our disappearance remains latent. It isn’t easy to live every moment with the certainty of our destiny, the fact that we’re going to die. It’s like trying to look at the sun, we can only tolerate it for a while. Our fear of death Fear of death is a natural…