death in life

However, unless one has not read John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” or Robert Jay Lifton’s “Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima,” or watched the countless documentaries and movies about the bombings, you know what happened.

A lullaby was exactly the right carrier, Coogler says, because of the parallels between sleep and death: “In life, you fall in love with things that are mortal. And so lullabies, they go both ways. Me and Ludwig are parents now, and a lot of times a lullaby is as much for the parent as it is for the kid. And at the end of your life, if you live a full life, there comes a point where your kid’s gotta put you to bed.”

That morning, people were going about their early chores, the psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton wrote in his book “Death in Life, Survivors of Hiroshima.”

Solomon, Greenberg and Pyszczynski present abundant evidence for terror-management theory in their 2015 book Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life.

He begins to regard his cynicism and jadedness as a “kind of defeat, a death in life without dignity or valor.”