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On 04/08/2011 20:03, davidlang@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: > On 04/08/2011 10:24, Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 04/08/2011 06:34, Derek C wrote: >>> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/boy-cyclist-dies-after-collision-with-a-deer-2330731.html >>> >>> >>>  A 15-year-old has died after he collided with a deer while cycling >>> with friends along a country lane. >>> >>> >>> Ben Madden suffered serious head injuries when he was thrown off his >>> bike after the animal ran out in front of him in Elloughton Dale, in >>> East Yorkshire, last week. It is believed the deer had clipped the >>> wheel of his cycle. Witnesses said he was not wearing a helmet. >>> >>> His friends and a passing motorist tried to help him and called >>> paramedics on July 26. The teenager, from Brough, was taken to Hull >>> Royal Infirmary but he did not recover. Police confirmed he died on >>> Sunday. >>> >>> A Humberside police spokeswoman said: "We are putting a file >>> together for the coroner and an inquest will open in due course." >> >> No doubt you will be advocating that all new bicycles pass the "moose >> crash test". If only one life >> can be saved... >> >> Actually what he needed was a cushion on his seat. That reduces crash >> energy, you know. > > Denial is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a > person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and > rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be > overwhelming evidence.

Yes, denial is very much one of Chapman's central "themes", along with deceit, dishonesty, intolerance, hatred, vileness....