The Denial of Death

"To becker, the two adjectives that best describe what we fear about those two things, life and death, is that, one, we fear impermanence, and two, we fear insignificance. To becker, this is going to animate and explain basically everything that we do in our lives as human beings," he says. "When you are confronted by how fragile your biological existence is, faced with how incomprehensible the universe is in terms of complexity, along with it, faced with considering your own insignificance."