A Role of Death in Life

[O]ur awareness of death creates tremendous potential for anxiety or terror. [W]e learn to manage that terror by embedding ourselves in a cultural worldview that imbues reality with order, meaning, and stability. [W]e gain and maintain psychological security by sustaining faith in that worldview and living up to the values it conveys. 

Parry, Marc. "Death Denial." The Chronicle of Higher Education., May 22, 2015, Accessed on May 26, 2015,  http://m.chronicle.com/article/Mortal-Motivation/230303/#sthash.wDIuH1fy.dpuf