Stephen Cave:
The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death
TEDxBratislava · 15:33 · Posted Dec 2013 
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Philosopher Stephen Cave begins with a dark but compelling question: When did you first realize you were going to die? And even more interestingly: Why do we humans so often resist the inevitability of death? In a fascinating talk Cave explores four narratives — common across civilizations — that we tell ourselves "in order to help us manage the terror of death."