Another thing...

Ernest Becker, his book the Denial of Death. Thought I had understood it when I was a college student but didn't and now see what Becker and Freud for example were really saying...

Man can't fully grasp this graphic description, and so on some level he goes into denial via having these stories and expresses that he knows he is going to die but sees his own death in an abstract way...one day far in the future, he
believes he will die but hasn't fully grasped it. To fully grasp it and the possibility of which I've spoken, "one has to go a little mad" .

One other thing, something which really bothers me. When something horrific happens like 9/11 many, many, said, "But for the Grace of God go I"...they survived and the others didn't because of God's grace? What a capricious God. Those who believe supposedly in an after-life, an afterlife of great peace, love, no suffering. If they truly believe this, then why don't they say, "There for the grace of God go those who didn't survive."

Oh, and Freud believed, as many others have, that the root of most all anxiety is the unconscious feeling that the coffin may just be it for all us.

Annie