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Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial-Of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned response to the "why" of human existence. In contrast to the commonplace Freudian way of thinking, Becker discusses the issue of the essential rest -- person's refusal to accept their own death. In doing this, he sheds new light on the character of mankind and issues a call alive and its living that still resonates significantly more than two decades after its writing.