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How Our Brains Shield us from Mortal Truth

Researchers say our brains do their best to keep us from dwelling on our inevitable demise.

“The moment you have this ability to look into your own future, you realise that at some point you’re going to die and there’s nothing you can do about it…That goes against the grain of our whole biology, which is helping us to stay alive.”

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