The Denial of Death, by Ernest Becker, and Death: The end of self-improvement, by Joan Tollifson

Authors Ernest Becker and Joan Tollifson. Reviews by Neil Morgan

by Neil Morgan 30th April 2021

According to William Hazlitt in his 1827 essay ‘On the feeling of immortality of youth’, ‘No young man believes he shall ever die.  Death, old age, are words without a meaning, a dream, a fiction, with which we have nothing to do.’