TED Talks

Stephen Cave: The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death

TV-PG
2013 • E236    Dec 12, 2013    15m
Philosopher Stephen Cave begins with a dark but compelling question: When did you first realize you were going to die? And even more interesting: Why do we humans so often resist the inevitability of death? Cave explores four narratives — common across civilizations — that we tell ourselves "in order to help us manage the terror of death."

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