The Denial of Death - Wikipedia - Ernest Becker  ## Metadata - Author: **Ernest Becker** - Full Title: The Denial of Death - Wikipedia - Category: #articles - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death#:~:text=The%20premise%20of%20The%20Denial,to%20our%20basic%20survival%20mechanism. ## Highlights - The premise of The Denial of Death is that human civilization is ultimately an elaborate, symbolic defense mechanism against the knowledge of our mortality, which in turn acts as the emotional and intellectual response to our basic survival mechanism.