A Grudge Match between Humanity and Death - Who Wins?

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If mindful people are more willing to explore whatever happens in the present, even if it uncomfortable, will they show less defensiveness when their sense of self is threatened by a confrontation with their own mortality?

Based on the results of 7 different experiments, the answer appears to be yes. When reminded about their death and asked to write about what will happen when their bodies decompose (in grisly detail), less mindful people showed an intense dislike for foreigners that mention what’s wrong with the United States (pro-U.S. bias), greater prejudice against black managers who discriminated against a white employee in a promotion decision (pro-white bias), and harsher penalties for social transgressions such as prostitution, marital infidelities, and drug use by physicians that led to surgical mishaps.

Across these various situations, on the contrast, mindful people showed a lack of defensiveness toward people that didn’t share their worldview. Mindful people were diplomatic and tolerant regardless of whether they were prompted to think about their slow, systematic decline toward obliteration.

What we found was that when asked to deeply contemplate their death, mindful people spent more time writing (as opposed to avoiding) and used more death-related words when reflecting on the experience. This suggests that a greater openness to processing the threat of death allows compassion and fairness to reign.

In this battle, mindfulness alters the power that death holds over us.

[E6722maj Profile]

death always wins in 'ze' end.


always.


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[-Marduk- Profile]

death always wins in 'ze' end.


always.

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[Constabul Profile]

death and taxes, only sure things in life. as is said.

the perception of death is a large factor, and how society teaches us to perceive such things leads to fear.
Fear being a large ingredient for religion.

Death is just a transition, or transmutation of energy, not ego.

Tho that is not to say they ego can not transition too...


Imo of random thoughts on such

[Iwanci Profile]

If death is a transition, then death as most would know it does not exist.

It would simply be part of the journey... as the old used to say... 'life after death can't be all that bad, no one has ever come back to complain'...

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"(Those) Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
- Redd Foxx

"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."
- Groucho Marx

"Life is what Happens to You When You're too Busy Making Other Plans."
- John Lennon

"Death buggers up your social life."
- allreadydead

There is no real grudge match between death and humanity - it's like a cosmic Marriage, no matter what you say, do or want, the other half always has the last word..............