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Mortals
- How the Fear of Death Shaped Human Society
- Narrated by: Michael Wahr
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Human society is shaped by many things, but underlying them all is one fundamental force - our fear of death. This is the groundbreaking theory explored in Mortals.
The human mind can grapple with the future, visualising and calculating solutions to complex problems, giving us tremendous advantages over other species throughout our evolution. However, this capability comes with a curse. By five to ten years of age, all humans know where they are heading: to the grave.
In Mortals, Rachel Menzies and Ross Menzies, both acclaimed psychologists whose life's work has focused on death anxiety, examine all the major human responses to death across history. From the development of religious systems denying the finality of death to 'immortality projects' involving enduring art, architecture and literature, some of the consequences of our fear of death have been glorious while others have been destructive, leading to global conflicts and genocide.
Looking forward, Mortals hypothesises that worse could be to come - our unconscious dread of death has led to rampant consumerism and overpopulation, driving the global warming and pandemic crises that now threaten our very existence. In a terrible irony, Homo sapiens may ultimately be destroyed by our knowledge of our own mortality.
Critic Reviews
"A fascinating tour of our species' attempts across millennia to come to terms with mortality. Mortals offers a stunning glimpse into what our fear of death means for our future. A must-read." (Professor Thomas Heidenreich, Esslingen University)
"As well as being fascinating, this book can also help you die a better death, and live a better life." (Julian Morrow, comedian, ABC presenter, member of The Chaser team)
"A death-defying book from two leaders in the field." (Professor David Veale, King's College London)
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- Kindle Customer
- 15-03-2022
Read Ernest Becker's work instead
If you want to read an interesting reflection on human society's attempts to overcome the fear of death, read Ernest Becker's excellent 1974 book "The Denial of Death", and don't waste your time on this. This book doesn't say anything worthwhile that wasn't said better by Becker, and unlike Becker the authors seem intent on pushing their left-liberal politics and anti-religion (particularly Christianity) views on the reader. The latter is particuarly obnoxious since Becker, while not uncritically pro-religion, nevertheless overall had often quite positive things to say about it, in comparision to secular "immortality projects". The authors of this book clearly owe a lot to Becker's considerably more original work (they reference him a number of times), so it is a shame they seem to have rejected his views on religion for a much less interesting New Atheist understanding.
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- Valentin
- 11-10-2022
Enlightening
Modern and vulgarises, I really enjoyed it. It brings insight over humanity's cultural, religious, philosophical and psychological approach of death. Very easy to listen to
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- Anonymous User
- 26-11-2021
EXCELLENT
taught me how to live life through the story of imminent death. excellent work.
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- Gary L Cavanough
- 28-10-2021
I think this is fiction
Only managed to get to chapter 2 - it was like a sermon - would reinforce beliefs of people with strong views and they would like it I think not me sorry
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- Anonymous User
- 16-01-2024
Narrator was good
Very good :) I loved this book so much and helped my process death when needed
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- Josephine
- 23-06-2023
Fascinating
Loved it. Interesting and easy to listen to. Except for the chapter dealing with Harlow's experiments which was heavy going. I'm glad I stuck with it. A very thorough examination of a fundamental driver of human behaviour.
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- calvin clark
- 11-06-2023
Terrible
The author's disdain for religion really taints the entire book. He's also severely misguided in blaming Hitler's Christianity for his beliefs then later promoting the philosophy of Nietzsche without seeing the irony. There may have been some interesting findings in the studies mentioned but it's hard to get past the author's worldview in general.
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- geoffm
- 05-05-2023
A Worthwhile read
Well presented and thought-provoking. The only negative was the last chapter, which advanced the global warming narrative.
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- Sandra C.
- 25-11-2022
Eye opener
Easy read and very informative. It’s a topic that I’ve never really thought about much before and some of the insights were a real eye opener. I recommend this to anyone wanting an interesting read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-11-2022
good ideas but don't stretch it.
the idea of the book is great. but the authors argue it too far on either side. with plenty of experimental evidence that I never heard of or maybe they were of very small sample sizes.
clearly see their agenda about morbidity salience responsible for all ills of the world. killings as well as global warming to not wearing a mask. lost a lot of credibility when they stretch it so far.
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