Pulitzer Prize–winning psychologist Ernest Becker wrote that the denial of death underlies all evils, and that we must drop this denial to live fully.

普利策奖获得者，心理学家Ernest Becker写过，拒绝死亡是万恶的基础，我们必须抛弃这种拒绝，充实地生活。

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Some people die without ever moving out of the denial stage, refusing to acknowledge death until it's upon them.

有些人还没有走出否认阶段就离开了人世，直到死亡降临到身上拒绝承认它。

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Unless, of course, health is not really what is at issue at all, and smokers have become an acceptable scapegoat for the moralistic impulses of all societies and the death-denial peculiar to our own.

当然，除非健康不是真正的病根，并且吸烟已成为一只可接受所有社会团体道德冲动以及我们自己否定死亡特权的替罪。

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Ibrahim,a civil society activist for the Somali Institute for Research and Development, says that if al-Shabab carried out the attack for which he says there is little doubt the group's denial could be due to the shocking nature of Thursday's death toll.

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In 1987 the Court dealt a death knell to the denial of services fraud doctrine, limited the mail and wire fraud statutes to protection of tangible property rights and challenged Congress to fix the problem if it wished to do so.

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The human propensity for denial is one thing, but given the severity of our recent near-death experience, this sort of behavior seems to border on the pathological.

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The emotional indicator treats governmental reaction to the economic turmoil like the phases of reaction to death: shock, anger, denial and acceptance, a framework based on an article in The Economist.

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