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In his seminal book The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker argues our capacity to grasp and contemplate our own mortality–and our need to suppress this knowledge–lies at the root of human culture and behavior, from genocide to altruism, religion to philosophy. Dr. John Troyer explores interpretations of his thesis, including its relationship to the Vietnam War and the broader field of 1970s death discourse.