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What is terror management theory?

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Is Death Really the Best Defense, Is It Really the Proximal Defense?

I don't think about death much, and i'm one to really like play it down. Emily is very preoccupied with death, really. She doesn't talk about it much, but she's cut up her very dark side. But how does she react to that? A, i think there's a low level of anxiety. Eh, she would probably agree with that. Ye. She dosn't listen tho showthat fine. Saye whatever you want now. I bet you you could even trickle it down a little bit, even beyond death, when you're feeling most fragile and vulnerable,. which obviously, death would be the ultimate invulnerable, vulnerability, exactly.

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