Psychology: The terror of our mortality

How do we deal with the certain knowledge of our impending demise?

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23rd June, 2012

In a moment of fiscal gay abandon, I recently celebrated payday by taking the family out to dinner. A Google search for “family friendly dining” turned up several possibilities, and the winner was Pan de Meurto (“bread of the dead”), a Mexican-themed restaurant we hadn’t been to before. A great time was had, but it was a good half-hour before eight-year-old Isaac stopped looking sideways at the paintings of skeletal mariachi players and women made up in white face paint. Given the name, “bread of the dead”, it was probably reasonable to expect a death theme, and it made me ...

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