Jimm D. wrote a while back: Death is boundary, play is creativity.
This brings to mind philosopher James Carse, author of a fine little book Finite and Infinite Games. The former have boundaries, the latter do not.
He recently published The Religious Case against Belief arguing that a "higher ignorance" is the hallmark of true faith; that is obscured or opposed by assertions of knowing, e.g., doctrine, dogma. Good thoughts on death, too.
Taken from the Ernest Becker Listserv Discussion Archives
