“Is war perhaps nothing else but a need to face death, to conquer and master it, to come out of it alive -- a peculiar form of denial of our mortality?”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
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