Axiomempiricalv1
When mortality is made salient and consciously processed
When mortality is made salient and consciously processed rather than suppressed, humans reorganize priorities toward intrinsic goals.
Why This Is an Axiom
This is an empirical finding from Terror Management Theory and related research. It describes a specific psychological mechanism triggered by mortality awareness. This is an irreducible finding about how death awareness affects human motivation and cannot be derived from other axioms.