Death Denial Leads To Tyranny - Death Literacy Can Help

Death denial is the refusal to acknowledge the reality of our own mortality or the inevitability of death. When tyrants exhibit this fear, we all pay the price.

In The Atlantic podcast about Peter Thiel, his death denial was on full display. Thiel sounded like Logan Roy, the powerful head of the Roy family in the HBO drama series Succession. If you watched t…