Modern denial

The deep reason why our culture finds it necessary to deny death is that death puts the lie to the agenda of our narrowly-conceived selves.
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And yes our societies even those that used to believe in karma and reincarnation increasingly buy into the Western model of life and no death
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But wait a minute.
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Any study and contemplation of death reveals the unreality of the discrete and separate self.
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Because the self that we define as our bodies
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Our names
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Our knowledge
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Our possessions
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Our self-image
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And our stories
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Or what Alan Watts calls our' "skin-encapsulated egos"
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Did not exist before we were born and will cease to exist when we die.
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Gone, finished, kaput, nothing left.
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That self is unreal it is impermanent
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The dualism of self and environment is unreal as well.
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It is no accident that every spiritual tradition has practices consisting of the contemplation of death.
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That is also why a close call with death is so transforming
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Because we stop worrying about the trivial concerns of life, it changes us 
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We walk in the knowledge that nothing here is important
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Nothing is important that is except love.
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When death exposes the impermanence and conditional reality of the self as we know it 
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Then all of the behaviours based on its exaggeration, its importance, its aggrandizement no longer make sense.
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Society as we know it is based upon these behaviours
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Hence society's need to belittle, hide, and deny death.'
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Death is in truth merely a transition
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A transition to another space.
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Where for most it will be much more agreeable than life here.
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A period of rest and assimilation before resuming lessons again here on Earth.
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Which is why deep down most feel there should be something more to life
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There is once you make that choice.
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A choice only we can make individually.