... it so widespread? Sheldon Solomon, PH.D., professor of psychology at Brooklyn College in New York says, "Fear of death comes from the human evolution into intelligent creatures. As anthropologist Ernest Becker argued, we have survived in part because we can ponder the past, plan for the future and imagine and make real things that may ... of death's inevitability. The poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"" by T.S. Eliot, also confronts a discomfort with the idea of death, an event that signals the end of one's time living. Often within "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock- the narr...

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