Thanatos

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Life is all about survival of the fittest, the weak got beaten, while the strong always get the power yet eve... More

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By thescrtreader

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Hindi po ako pro in this kind of aspect gusto ko lang po ibahagi ang mga istoryang nabubuo sa imahinasyon ng aking malikot na isipan. ^3^

Greek mythology

Thanatos, in ancient Greek religion and mythology, the personification of death. Thanatos was the son of Nyx, the goddess of night, and the brother of Hypnos, the god of sleep. He appeared to humans to carry them off to the underworld when the time allotted to them by the Fates had expired.
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THANATOS was the god or personified spirit (daimon) of non-violent death. His touch was gentle, likened to that of his twin brother Hypnos (Sleep). Violent death was the domain of Thanatos' blood-craving sisters, the Keres, spirits of slaughter and disease.
(https://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Thanatos.html)

Death Instincts (Thanatos)

The concept of the death instincts was initially described in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, in which Freud proposed that "the goal of all life is death." Freud believed that people typically channel their death instincts outwards.
(https://www.verywellmind.com/life-and-death-instincts-2795847)

Medical Definition of death instinct

: an innate and unconscious tendency toward self-destruction postulated in psychoanalytic theory to explain aggressive and destructive behavior not satisfactorily explained by the pleasure principle. - called also Thanatos.
(https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20instinct)

Eros is the drive of life, love, creativity, and sexuality, self-satisfaction, and species preservation. Thanatos, from the Greek word for "death" is the drive of aggression, sadism, destruction, violence, and death.
(https://www.geneseo.edu/~easton/humanities/Freud.htm)

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