This article presents a thesis that is both provocative and interesting, at least from a spiritual and personal growth perspective, but the article does not do a very good job of explaining the rationale for its thesis. The article’s thesis seems to be that the reason we still have war is because we still have a fear of death, and that once we overcome fear of death, we’ll overcome war. This might be a plausible thesis, but it needs to be explained, and the article doesn’t do that. The real-world evidence is clearly quite contrary to the article — the societies in which people DO fear death are generally peaceful and NOT starting wars nowadays, it appears, whereas it seems to be the case that most war and violence currently is stemming from acts of terrorism by people who DON’T fear death. It’s the people who don’t fear death that are becoming terrorists and killing others, not the people who do fear death. The article completely ignores this even though this evidence goes against the thesis of the article. So I would suggest that the author(s) — and/or others — provide some more clarity on this. Certainly it would appear that people NOT fearing death is not a sufficient condition for preventing war, because we have plenty of people in this world who are, in fact, at war even though they don’t fear death, so it seems that the article is missing something.