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October 3, 2013 02:05 pm PDT
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Eat, sleep, and visit the mall ... for tomorrow wedie
Survey-based sociology research in Israel and the United States finds a correlation between fear of death and impulsive shopping. The researchers behind these studies think that the connection represents people using materialism as a coping mechanism to deal with death anxiety.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/XD7QwL-qmxs/story01.htm
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