The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity – designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.
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| Birth: | 27th September, 1924 |
| Death: | 6th March, 1974 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Anthropologist, Psychologist, Writer |
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