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+The invocation of “survival” as a justification for the plan makes all atrocities possible and removes the value of survival itself – in the attempt to save our world, they have destroyed it. |
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+~-~-Daniel Callahan, Fellow at the Institute of Society and Ethics, 1973 The Tyranny of Survival, Pages 91-93) |
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+"in the name of...pyrrhic victories." |
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+Psychotherapists concur that embracing and confronting our own mortality is a prerequisite to a happy and fulfilling existence. |
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+~-~-David Van Nuys, PhD in Psychotherapy, “An Interview with Irvin Yalom, MD on Death Anxiety”, February 20th. |
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+"Though death...your last." |
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+Fear of death causes us to deny the free and liberating experience of truly living to our full potential – embracing that mortality is key to solve. |
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+~-~-Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness, Review by Benjamin Howard of Roshi’s new book: BEING WITH DYING: CULTIVATING COMPASSION AND FEARLESSNESS IN THE PRESENCE OF DEATH, PhD in anthropology. 2009. |
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+"Observing that...at bay" |
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+The neutrality of death necessitates the alternative. |
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+~-~-Epicurus 311 BCE, Letter to Meneocues, translated by Professor Robert Drew Hicks, http://classics.mit.edu/Epicurus/menoec.html, bracketed for gendered language |
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+Alt Text: Vote negative as a method of rejecting their survivalist justification and freeing ourselves from the fear of death. |