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Cinderella and the Death Quota.


Cinderella and the Death Quota

Winfred Hamner Ph.D.

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Written by Vietnam veteran This article is about veterans of the Vietnam War. For the French psychedelic musical group, see Vietnam Veterans.
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 Winfred Hamner Ph. D, Cinderella and the Death Quota is a sober examination of humankind's "death-centered" existence--the preoccupation with denying mortality, and the popularly held variants of the "death quota" myth, that death will not strike oneself down if another dies in one's place. Delving into fairy tales This is a list of fairy tales, the dates of their earliest known printed version, the author and, if known, the collection of tales in which it was published. It should be noted, however, that not all stories listed below would be categorized as fairy tales by a strict definition , parables, and creation myths creation myth
 or cosmogony

Symbolic narrative of the creation and organization of the world as understood in a particular tradition. Not all creation myths include a creator, though a supreme creator deity, existing from before creation, is very common.
 to explore humanity's obsession with death and inability to grasp the meaning of nonexistence non·ex·is·tence  
n.
1. The condition of not existing.

2. Something that does not exist.



non
, Cinderella and the Death Quota goes a step beyond abstract conceptualizing to reveal the harm that such death-centered thinking can bring: a death quota obsession fuels violent behavior facilitating or perpetrating bringing death to others for the sake of exempting the self from the fictitious quota. A serious-minded treatise written to help the reader better focus his or her life on positive goals rather than morbid morbid /mor·bid/ (mor´bid)
1. pertaining to, affected with, or inducing disease; diseased.

2. unhealthy or unwholesome.

3.
 obsessions, as surely as it is a dissertation of philosophical perspective, Cinderella and the Death Quota is highly recommended.
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