Death

Some Israeli psychologists claim to have shown that we people block out thoughts of death, by some unknown brain function mechanism.

That’s not surprising. We all think we’re going to live forever and we live in denial of our upcoming demise.

The evidence? You don’t need brain scan. All you need is to look at the choices people make, every day.

My 84 year old mother worries about the carcinogenic nature of most sun block creams.

I smoke daily. Moot point this one. I think the risks are massively overstated by a coalition of the shrill and self-serving.

People save up for their retirement when they are least able to enjoy their cash.

I had a baby at 54 and may be having another at 56.

Complete and utter denial….I guess it makes us less depressed and therefore more useful to the species, in a social sense.

It goes to my earlier point. Religions are around not because people are scared of death (they are; but we’re engineered not to worry about it). What they are actually doing is praying to gods of good luck, hence “god’.