Death
Becker died on March 6, 1974 from colon cancer in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. After his death, the Ernest Becker Foundation was founded to devote to multidisciplinary inquiries into human behavior, with a particular focus on contributing to the reduction of violence in human society, using Becker's basic ideas to support research and application at the interfaces of science, the humanities, social action and religion. Flight From Death (2006) is a documentary film directed by Patrick Shen, based on Becker's work, and partially funded by the Ernest Becker Foundation.
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