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Right up until days before his death, I felt strongly and powerfully, and, you might say, irrationally, that I could keep him from dying ever.
Yet I will tell you that denial isn't even close to a strong enough word to describe what those of us facing the
death
of our loved ones go through.
It's like, there was no escape from this man's
death
grip, but he got me safely there.
It's their knowledge that spells the difference between survival and
death
for their whole society in a time of crisis caused by rare events for which only the oldest people alive have had experience.
They almost never die of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and the other noncommunicable diseases that will be the causes of
death
of almost all of us in this room today.
Last time, I talked about
death
and dying.
It had to do with
death
and disease and lots of other things.
Well, those of you who know some of these books know that one is about
death
and dying, one is about the human body and the human spirit, one is about the way mystical thoughts are constantly in our minds.
I really have it figured out so that I can advise people about
death
and dying, so that I can talk about mysticism and the human spirit.
Well, at some point, all children become aware of
death.
Our idea of
death
develops as we grow older.
Now when I first started asking what happens when we die, the grown-ups around me at the time answered with a typical English mix of awkwardness and half-hearted Christianity, and the phrase I heard most often was that granddad was now "up there looking down on us," and if I should die too, which wouldn't happen of course, then I too would go up there, which made
death
sound a lot like an existential elevator.
And every time, you get the same result: People who are made aware of their mortality are more willing to believe stories that tell them they can escape
death
and live forever.
But put the fear of
death
in them, and they run to Jesus.
Now, this shows that reminding people of
death
biases them to believe, regardless of the evidence, and it works not just for religion, but for any kind of belief system that promises immortality in some form, whether it's becoming famous or having children or even nationalism, which promises you can live on as part of a greater whole.
We develop our worldviews, that is, the stories we tell ourselves about the world and our place in it, in order to help us manage the terror of
death.
We want to avoid death, and the dream of doing that in this body in this world forever is the first and simplest kind of immortality story, and it might at first sound implausible, but actually, almost every culture in human history has had some myth or legend of an elixir of life or a fountain of youth or something that promises to keep us going forever.
But the idea that science can cure
death
is just one more chapter in the story of the magical elixir, a story that is as old as civilization.
Rather, we believe these stories because we are biased to believe them, and we are biased to believe them because we are so afraid of
death.
He argued that the fear of
death
is natural, but it is not rational.
"Death," he said, "is nothing to us, because when we are here,
death
is not, and when
death
is here, we are gone."
So 2,000 years later, another philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, put it like this:
"Death
is not an event in life: We do not live to experience
death.
Now, overcoming this bias is not easy because the fear of
death
is so deeply embedded in us, yet when we see that the fear itself is not rational, and when we bring out into the open the ways in which it can unconsciously bias us, then we can at least start to try to minimize the influence it has on our lives.
Now, I find it helps to see life as being like a book: Just as a book is bounded by its covers, by beginning and end, so our lives are bounded by birth and death, and even though a book is limited by beginning and end, it can encompass distant landscapes, exotic figures, fantastic adventures.
Imagine the book of your life, its covers, its beginning and end, and your birth and your
death.
It makes no sense for you to fear what is outside of those covers, whether before your birth or after your
death.
Still others suggest that maybe this is something that formed during the
death
throes of a star, perhaps during a supernova explosion, as planetary material got shredded.
They did, however, seem very concerned that I would starve to
death
during Ramadan.
It's a terrible thing to spray DDT on cotton fields, but it's a really good thing to use to eliminate millions of cases of
death
due to malaria in a small village.
This is a study that looked at the risk of
death
over a 14-year period based on four healthy habits: eating enough fruits and vegetables, exercise three times a week, not smoking, and drinking in moderation.
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