Written on 28-12-2019

Our brains are designed to help us survive. That might be why, when it comes to thinking about death, we have a built-in protective mechanism. A fascinating new study shows that our brains distance the concept of death from ourselves, generally thinking about it as something that happens to other people. As one of the researchers summarizes it, “[t]he brain does not accept that death is related to us.”

More details here, on The Guardian