"Radical Mindfulness Shifts Death Fear"

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Frida Ghitis: Social movements have been missing a main target: fear of death that shapes bad human behavior.

She says it's easy to feel small in the face of an existence that doesn't answer to us.

Ghitis says fear of social death is a constant hum in the background of our lives.

Social psychologists have run hundreds of experiments that support Becker 's account of how death denial shapes human behavior.

Like Buddhist meditation, many Indigenous cultures include stories, rituals and ceremonies that help their members face the reality of death.

If we can face our existential fears through stories and rituals, we are less likely to collectively devise and subscribe to value systems that limit social worth to a select few.

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