Terror Management: Everything that makes up your life has an equal part in destroying it. The terror management theory makes a connection between our will to live and the inevitability of our death. Our egos and our self-awareness act as buffers against the anxiety that comes from recognizing that someday we will die. Basically, everything you will ever do or say is motivated by the fact that some day you will die, even the deepest truest forms of ourselves, on our best days are motivated by this knowledge. However there is a way, which humanity has learned to fight back against the terror management theory and that is culture. Culture is humanities tool to fight back against our anxiety of death. We are comforted by our cultures and traditions. We are happy because we feel like we belong with our fellow man. Be it family, religion, nationality or even our political affiliations, these products of culture allow us to over come the terror of our existence and possibly for a moment forget our own death. This uniquely human experience is what has allowed humanity to flourish the way it has and so I guess even though it may sound bad, it really is not so terrifying after all.