I do not fear death, by Roger Ebert [1942-2013]

[@Pharaoh025]

I am 28. I've had my share of encounters with death, like anyone I guess. Fear of death has always followed me. Fear of not having mattered, of being pointless and forgotten. When I set out to find comforting words in the middle of the night, to calm this fear that has -once again- reared its ugly head, I struggled to find a voice who's answers did not immediately turn to religious belief. Of any kind. Belief, to me, would not be an answer. So I must thank you for this. I can go back to bed now.

[@kellycommaroy]

If we ever meet in person, drinks are on me.

[@barneyfromblackmesa2454]

I miss you buddy. Thanks for all the laughs and tears. I hope your life's been good.

[@RobertjBrown88]

I remember reading this the day he passed. Having it read to me just touched me in a different way. His words are so full of wisdom and are so heartfelt, it's jarring.

[@acai28]

Roundabout - YES

[@thedoublessymbol]

Hey

[@Nodrog666]

RIP Rodger Ebert. I may not have always agreed with your opinions, but I've always admired your integrity.

[@PureNasher]

Woah, Thanks Roy. Those words have given me some comfort in the years to come.

[@wmc519]

Loved Roger and love what you do on here. Thanks.

[@MrPoorCat]

Roy... I need your voice in my life. More. Please and thank. 3 Poorcat and all of KZbin.

[@ArdenDag]

Great tribute to a great man.

[@rr7firefly]

This is the best thing of the whole week. Some lucky stumbling brought me to it. I really like the format. Nice work.

[@Villain.van.Bobbov]

Thanks for sharing this in your wonderful spoken word.

[@ml1081801]

If you think about it, the very fact that you've made this video, you've taken his thoughts, ideas, words, his very essence, and allowed it to live. We exist in the minds and memories of the people and things we leave behind. We never die, we simply stop creating. The mere fact that we celebrate our deaths with funerals, rather than being left to rot in place or shoveled into a mass burial shows that we never truely die, we simply become things of memory.

[@stoicfloor]

I was in a deep contemplation and suddenly the music popped... Why isn't this channel active anymore? where's the uploader?

[@KIRFEX]

+Dragon377 Some say he passed away. He completely went AWOL for an unknown reason 2 years ago on all social media/internet.

[@onlyultimatum1015]

+Dragon377 Pretty sure he passed away. All of his accounts have been silent as long as he's been inactive -- and he was going strong until he suddenly just stopped. Either he decided to randomly just run away and never touch the internet again. Or more reasonably, he took immediately ill, or just suddenly died. Tis' life. Just be happy we have this, I guess.

[@stoicfloor]

Only Ultimatum I hope he just abandoned us instead of the inevitability.

[@onlyultimatum1015]

Dragon377 Me too bud, me too.

[@thedoublessymbol]

@@stoicfloor ignorance is bliss

[@CavemanCrafts86]

Simply amazing....

[@qwertyfingeryeah]

Excellent interpretation Roy. You gave context and life to the lines. Keep it up.

[@Pavel7918]

"After a lifetime of writing, teaching, broadcasting, and telling too many jokes, I will leave behind more memes than many." I can't be the only one who burst into laughter here

[@TheBobberWCC]

Appropriate video at an appropriate time for an amazing man. Cool

[@SeaHorseGypsy]

Wow i love this thank you for uploading.

[@pablocalderon712]

Love the song!!! Roundabout by yes

[@Skywreckdemon]

This makes me feel content.

[@DrDaveDavington]

I know these aren't your words, but you spoke them like your own, and you spoke them beautifully.

[@Proman2]

Damn. You need to record a voice-book or something. That was amazing.

[@samiam9704]

Yes! Annabelle Lee is my favorite poem, I'd love to hear it read by Roy.

[@FBFJDKOEUEURJFJDJ]

I'm sure I will watch this again in the future.

[@Woozma]

the song is "Roundabout" by Yes. Great song.

[@TheEvolvedprimate]

Amazing video. I subscribed. RIP Roger, the world is a less, interesting place, without you here. Miss ya brotha. :-D

[@911Chrispy911]

Well done sir. U have made me think a bit on things though my main difference I died a steadfast atheist and after how long plus barely having one or two faint beats per minute after coming back and spending all night without any detectable breath then coming to two days later in icu.... knowing none of that and this not having been my first overdose where time disappeared. I woke up the first thing I did was scold them for bringing me back. Plenty more overdoses and hospital icu stays but never was I pulse and breath free again and never did I experience what I did again before I knew I had even died. All that said I never feel fear now..... not even when I jump out of a plane or have a stranger pointing a gun at me. Death has been calling and beckoning me ever since it happened to me almost 20 yrs ago....... I really look forward to it and wish it came right now. I however have saved many peoples life's since then,,,, some total strangers some who I disliked a lot. Putting my life on the line to save theirs..... I believe love is a natural force from attraction in physics. Because kindness is my moral and love and floating euphoria is what I felt at death and the stored negative energy was discharged when my flesh died. I'm the nucleus without much ability to think but I felt the misery and pain gone like excess valence electrons leaving me floating and feeling great but barely conscious. I didn't know I was there till I woke up. Anyway, good stuff....thank u

[@xcbozax]

dude for some reason i feel like i know you. your voice is just that nice.

[@stormstrike9255]

Loved the Tintin reference

[@Homiebalonie]

Beautiful.

[@Horace1680]

That was lovely, Thank You.

[@parnmkie]

ah i rely liked this thanks Roger Ebert and thank you as well Roy

[@leahsdreams]

I expect great things from you good sir.

[@crybirb]

Roy, can you please read more texts like this one? I know it's hard to put content on KZbin or find right passages that stand alone on books, but I just find this video amazing, I really love people reading content and theres so little of it to enjoy. Thanks and keep up man.

[@EricLeeStepp]

He never understood video games. He didn't say they weren't art. He was saying they aren't art the way that books, paintings, and movies are art. The difference is the player control. In video games, you can die in a part where your character doesn't actually die, and it is immersion breaking. There are video games that build character and have conflict and exposition the same way that movies do, but it just isn't the same.

[@Rajonas007]

That is comforting! My grandpa has early stage cancer and sometimes talks about death, and me and him agre that it is not so bad, it's natural order. I sometimes think about suicide and why it is wrong. I think suicide is sad, not wrong and death(natural) is a good thing. I think to die is like going to sleep forever with a short dream and then coldness and darkness.

[@TheChadintheHat1]

I would absolutely love it if you would read the whole book of John Dies at the End. I think that would be really fun to listen to.

[@M1NIONM4N]

ROY WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN MY BOY?!

[@EPR89]

I give this two thumbs up.

[@ChrisMudkip]

wh....who...who's cutting onions?

[@HiddenDragon555]

I am Mwahahahahaha!!!

[@gh3ttoduCanada]

Wait...that song in the beginning...INSTA-FAV!

[@crybirb]

Oh thank you sir.

[@EricLeeStepp]

If we ever meet in person, drinks are on me. You've given me so much entertainment for free.

[@mrpib999]

this is fucking perfect. you're fucking perfect. everything is perfect.

[@ethancardwell21]

Can you please narrate my life?

[@godskygaming3379]

memes are the way to eternity ʕ༼◕ ౪ ◕✿༽ʔ

[@TycraneVG]

You magnificent bastard.

[@akebooshii]

Well done, chap.

[@crybirb]

What's the music in the start?

[@deserthawk48]

YES!!! Roundabout is very good song :)

[@PukGeneration]

Awesome.

[@ElKilloman]

Roy, this may have been asked before, but, I have to be sure, can you read The Egg by Andy Weir?

[@xxturtlelordxx1597]

Best ending ever

[@gh3ttoduCanada]

He's got some warts, true, but Ebert was a damn institution of the movies.

[@brycedoyon6624]

this is fucking art

[@clester07]

when is Roy gonna make a new video?????

[@nameless805]

i want this read at my funeral

[@TheGhostTypist]

I love your username.

[@I_am_not_spooky]

Jesus Christ loves you so much so love him to have eternal life

[@dfer159632]

which station was it by any chance?

[@halogod666]

what is the intro song?

[@SmoothNougat]

your icon is prefect.

[@EricLeeStepp]

Also, if you showed him someone playing through Uncharted or Tomb Raider and not speed running or glitching through the game, but actually experiencing the game, he would consider it art in the same way a Michael Bay movie is art.

[@xSkullKrushax]

How did you know Roger Ebert?

[@LosztOne1]

Where are you? :(

[@TeeKayFourTwoOnebeta]

I think he was talking about Ebert, not Kelly.

[@LedZepp1109]

Opening chords to Roundabout. Roy, I need you to be blatantly honest with me. Are you or are you not a Yes fan.

[@BlockDuuuuude]

Roundabout, by Yes.

[@chaosrah]

I wish Roy Kelly could voice everything I read.

[@mushroomassassin3504]

Thank you. #walkonthesun2013

[@GeminautVA]

Holy shit, yes!

[@LeFerret335]

that's a nice text

[@robertgoss4842]

I used to think Roger Ebert was just another pseudo-intellectual snot. I don't think that anymore. Instead, I now believe I'm a pseudo-intellectual snot, and Roger Ebert always knew what the fuck he was talking about.

[@tamsinthai]

I recently read Roger Ebert had a Death Bead Vision after which he said 'This is a hoax, it's vast!'. I'm assuming he meant this life is a dream and there's much more. By the way, can those from the US on here please learn to pronounce Van Gogh as in 'cough' NOT 'GO'. Christ, you must have heard it pronounced properly (from Europe) a few times.

[@ryanyesman7664]

It's a social thing. If I went around saying vohn gochhh in America I'd sound like a prick, same way van go sounds stupid in Europe. All I'm saying is I dont go around telling English people it's pronounced Pachee and meheeco, not Paris and Mexico. Different languages and cultures have different names and pronunciations of proper nouns that are all equally correct. Hence the mess of names for Germany or Finland around the world. If you went up to a Mexican and told them its Germany and not Alemania they'd probably think you're an idiot cuz we all know it's really deutcheland unless you're polish in which case its niemcy and if you say otherwise you're wrong and a dead man.

[@Spoons123]

Did you voice act for a radio station in GTA: Vice City? You probably didn't, but when I was playing I was like "Boy that sounds a lot like that heroin dramatic reading guy"

[@SephShareBear]

can you narrate my life?

[@TurmoilTom]

Awwww yeahhhhhh!

[@thegamingpharaoh6996]

yes - roundabout btw

[@masteretainturmakan]

I SHIP IT

[@Nethertar]

You know, he reads awesomely. Beyond that, it doesn't really matter anything about him, as his presence on youtube is determined by his reading. He might be religios, an atheist, gay, a killer, a rapist, a banker or a plummer. You only hear his voice, that's all.

[@crybirb]

It's from jojo?

[@LeadMuffinGameing]

Who thumbs this down?

[@megaphilobeddoe5602]

Roger met God when he died.

[@SporeTres]

While that was beautiful, this also pointed out to me, that I haven't spread quite much of memes across my vicinity as well. :(

[@SrswizardsStuffTM]

Far out, man.

[@ThisUserNameShudWork]

Roy, you should read epic youtube comments

[@TheDerangedUnknown]

ok batman calm down

[@denisecoffin314]

IT self is right....he looked like death while alive

[@AdamWestTheDrunk]

read poe

[@suspicious_pebble]

It's been a month, but I see no one's answered you yet. It's called Roundabout. /watch?v=qi6W7IRizFk

[@FornicateWithRaptors]

Hey, Roy. You're fucking beautiful.

[@Jmblinn13]

Tintin :)

[@littledude29]

you must read streetlamp le moose

[@ColdOneK]

Tl;dr there is only one truth that a human being can know about the afterlife - that he knows nothing of the afterlife no book written about what some mythical creature did back in the dark ages can change that fact irregardless of what you believe - you cannot know it is true - no matter how blindly you follow it blame your mythical creature of choice for deciding to never prove its existence thus it comes down to three options Option A: believe in some mythical creature - living up to - or guilt-tripping yourself for failing to - follow its arbitrary rules w/ the only bonus you know you can count on - being the "he's all dressed up w/ nowhere to go" dark humor joke at funerals only to die later in a - likely - inconvenient way for your family and all those you care about Option B: live however the hell you feel like - becoming the person you want to be - or hating yourself for failing to do so only to die later in a - likely - inconvenient way for your family and all those you care about Option C: deciding that this life is a complete joke that likes to take away everything you care about that you don't have any goals you want to persue that even if religion A were true - you don't believe some mythical creature that randomed you to life w/out asking your oppinion on the matter - has any fcking right to judge you for your actions and that you don't want to play this game anymore only to die how you please fearing death is for the religious - not the sane

[@skyluke9476]

yes. there are only carts attached to horses, so we must choose which one. But isnt that how it would work no matter the reality? If you were a rat with our conciousness would not the option be to risk death for cheese? If you were the moon, wouldnt you wish to be the sun for you know of its warming gaze, and so on? We sadden because we know of what else, but we are also happy because we know of what else. Zen my friend, is the peace of life

[@breezycheek]

He aint even religious tho.

[@TehNewV]

This is self-contradictory..

[@daveybaby131]

and you couldn't get a gay man or any woman. This is your Saturday night

[@PhoenixHyde]

So? I must dislike him because he said his opinion about something? Is not like is true is it? Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, he, you and me. My personal opinion about those things? I give a fuck if people think videogames are art or not, i just play them and enjoy them. And i give a fuck about everyone's beliefs and disbeliefs. You can worship a goddamned potato, and i will still not care.

[@amprie4770]

Bullox

[@kellygreen5556]

Ebert was death and a flopped smut writer