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The author attempts to prove that on purely logical grounds the concept of a death instinct is unassailable. He presents productions of a depressed patient in the course of an analysis. The thoughts concern the many forms of death which occur in daily life, such as, natural, homicidal, and suicidal deaths, mass suicides (war), etc.