Most people live in denial of death | David Sinclair and Lex Fridman

[@alexkarasz6186]

Momento Mori. Remember that one day you will be gone. Otherwise we'd waste eternity watching KZbin videos. After you discover the endless virtual, pharmaceutical and philosophical distractions don't work, you arrive at a place of acceptance. Nobody asked to be born into this third dimensional meat suit of pain. Find a way to make sense of your brief existence, help alleviate some suffering along the way and sing the song that's in your heart. I wouldn't waste another minute worrying about it. Remember your Zen training. The Samurai must die.

[@poppinsmoke9180]

Nice one my brother 🙏🏻

[@michaelehlert9]

I’m on it!

[@andrewsmith3257]

Am I a nihilist by saying that I would love to watch KZbin for an eternity? I cant help i love it. Zen doesnt work if you have ADHD, i cannot meditate to save my life

[@NoonyJW]

“The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth. But I think that's a luxury, not a curse.” - Captain Price

[@michaelfletcher1224]

I feel so differently about this topic. My dad just died a couple of months ago. I'll miss him but I don't think about him most days. I've got better things to do with my time. I have my own life to live. If there is no "spiritual" existence after death then he doesn't care (because he doesn't exist anymore) and I don't care so much it's changing my life in any real way. I just don't see the problem. People obsessed with living forever or even for a super long time don't make sense to me. The 80+ year old's that I know have terrible lives by most standards. Some have ok lives... but they aren't as good as when they were younger that's for sure. I can still enjoy their company but their day to day life is mostly terrible, if we're honest. My wife works in an old folks home and loves to take care of people at that stage of their lives. She works to make their lives as good as they can be. I'd rather be dead than live like them. The actual age limit will go up with advances in health care and science but there comes a point when death is a relief. That's how I see it anyway. I do feel totally differently about death when it comes to young, healthy people. It's hard to think of something more painful than if one of my kids died prematurely but old age is just a different situation. At 51, I've already had an amazing life and I hope it continues for a while longer but I'm not worried about it ending... and I bet I think about it more than the average person too. Just live the best life you can and choose to be happy and that's honestly enough, I think. Hoping to live forever sounds crazy to me. Trying to stay healthy as long as you can seems like a good idea but not so you can live longer... so you can live better.

[@Blsnro]

@@Alex-io8ms Get more up to how much? There is no end in desire.

[@michaelfletcher1224]

@@Alex-io8ms Yeah, I can agree with all of that. I'm just not in the camp of living in fear of death. It's just not that scary to me after a good life lived.

[@ciararespect4296]

Exactly. A mayfly only livesa few weeks and it doesn't fret Humans want more and more its never enough especially if they're rich and have great lives For most of us it's drudgery I smoke I don't care if it shortens my life a bit I don't want to be eighty or ninety with zero mobility etc and most end up like that. Their kids abandon them and put them in a home This talk about being immortal is fake and will never happen. Mankind will die long before that

[@bradagee9041]

I'm comforted by the idea that when I'm dead I won't be aware that I don't exist. I will cease to be able to give a shit in the great nothingness. But, then thinking what if there's something rather than nothing? Alcohol.

[@jigsaw2253]

Alcohol is not the answer!

[@jerickodoggo9595]

Im an alcoholic as well. Thing is. You're not just hurting yourself. You're hurting any one around you or anyone attached to you. Until a great life event or some other massive intervention takes place. It usually ruins your life. Such is alchohol. You drink. You likely have brain damage. You drink and I consider you a dumb fuck.

[@chubbydong142]

You dont know that you won't be aware

[@augustmoon0004]

@@chubbydong142 Yes we do! Have you not studied anything in your lifetime to do with the brain? Once the brain does not operate you can’t think anymore and you aren’t aware of anything. This is easily provable! How? Traumatic brain injury, stroke, brain tumors, dementia, Alzheimer’s… all render parts of the brain ineffective, and in many cases, wipe the neurological pathways, neurons and synapses of their memory. You do realize you aren’t you without your memory, correct? Your denial is obvious. Unfortunately, your ego has taken over along with cognitive dissonance. You probably still think you have an everlasting soul that’s separate from your body, it’s not! This mythical soul that has been spoken about by early humans who weren’t as intelligent as the average fourth grader today just never connected that it’s their brain that they were talking about. Death will be exactly like your experience before your birth, a void of nothingness!!

[@gamesandthoughts2388]

@@chubbydong142 You do know that the body stays in this physical world. The brain shuts off and loses its main functions in 3 - 6 minutes after the heart stops beating and the person stops breathing. Those alive who are subjected to these types of conditions even for a short period of time usually don't remember shi! and know how much time has passed only after being conscious back again. So yeah. you are not going to be aware unless there is some afterlife.

[@silvalinan4077]

I didn't choose to live. I am here without my consent due to someone else's decision. Why should I be afraid of not being here anymore?

[@annaczgli2983]

Damn. 🙏

[@mustang607]

Many believe, "Death is just a social construct."

[@joesteadman343]

Many believe the world is flat. That's not profound.

[@user-sx5og8rt9t]

@@joesteadman343 You went way off topic.

[@user-sx5og8rt9t]

@@devinmichaelroberts9954 Shtawwwwp.

[@BallyBoy95]

@@user-sx5og8rt9t Many believe, "No, you stawwhppp!"

[@user-sx5og8rt9t]

@@BallyBoy95 Staawp bullying me. Lol jk

[@moneymakerbanditsports8423]

The One Thing about Death? Everyone Gets a Turn!

[@BuckfastConsumer]

"And the meek shall inherit the earth"

[@TheMaximumCool]

If anyone is intrigued by this, you might like the documentary Flight from Death. I believe there's a copy on youtube.

[@BuckfastConsumer]

iggy pop dude - "All living life forms have evolved t.t.to.to not want to die" Lemmings - "hold my beer"

[@imsorrythankyouplease7613]

I would rather not experience life on earth today- or any other day.

[@sharps8726]

You came into existence from NOTHING and you doubt another existence?

[@beyondtourismbeyondtourism7242]

'You're gonna reach 80 and regret it.' Reaching 80 is enough for most people

[@vif3182]

Degradation of the body is unavoidable and a lot of people end up creating a sense of self-driven guilt later in life for not being more active in their earlier years. Living to 80 is surely a blessing but how you will be living it is something you will have to examine from your immediate family, playing your cards right can only do so much.

[@alvarez.l9422]

Some of us look forward to death. Society and it’s complicated intricacies are not built for everyone. If you don’t participate as expected you then become an outcast and looked down upon, while all you want is to be yourself. So you chug along, looking forward for all of this to be over.

[@DJSbros]

Then when we say this outloud people try to convince us we're mentally ill and should be medicated. If you live in a society of the mentally ill who are convinced they in fact are sane, anybody outside the norm is seen as crazy.

[@tmkkxx101]

Vincent you seem insane. Society makes your life easier than it would be otherwise if you cant see that, you are insane

[@PRICEX]

bro that's not a good mindset to have

[@Basinrails]

"So you chug along, looking forward for all of this to be over." Ew! I don't want any of your depression!

[@mlworks]

Reaching 80 and regret it!

[@DistantTower]

What do you mean? What advice would you give yourself to prevent that regret? And humbly, I’ll sound off and say don’t take even being 80 as the end, you could have 20 more years on this earth. Explore music, math, what your heart desires it can still find. All the best

[@mlworks]

Many people live regretful life and wonder about the feeling of nothingness they've created for themselves over the years. To avoid such feeling, I believe we should do what we love and make a living out of it.

[@richardkister4507]

Think about the Death like final rest.

[@9Ballr]

Hell would be having to live forever.

[@gonickjapan]

My plan to live forever: Just going to go ahead and upload my consciousness to Google Drive

[@alexandermiller866]

What painting is that in the thumbnail? Thanks!

[@greedysourceofgod4819]

Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle

[@thebubster0312]

If you thought every moment that you are going to die you would not take risks and move forward.

[@richardnunziata3221]

why would you think about something as abstract as non existence that has zero effect on you actions rather then just getting on with life...weather eating, fighting , escaping...etc. And what can one say about non existence from a first person perspective or even a third person perspective. It's all commentary.

[@britvroman]

People can clone the same person by using their dna. But a clone will just be a clone/copy. They will not be the same person. Which raises a question do we all have souls and not just a physical body while we're here. If we all have souls perhaps there is an after life.

[@augustmoon0004]

Absolutely no! People do not have souls! This is magical thinking from early humans who just weren’t aware of our natural world and conjured magical thinking to support their hopes and desires, exactly the denial of death! In reality, the brain is our functioning organ that creates our self and in our memories, and once that loses oxygen and dies, so do we. There is no eternal memories without your brain!

[@mustardseed738]

Your guest make interesting points but those who are Christian believers to die is gain and to be present with the Lord. For those who are not true Believers well Death is very terrifying event.

[@ExploringSpace]

So if we age due to inflammation, would anti-inflammatory drugs like Advil help extend our lifespan?

[@chubbydong142]

@@idahojohnson6105 So says Idaho Johnson,with his long list of sources and credentials.

[@poppinsmoke9180]

But I do at least once a day think about it It gives me drive, is it unhealthy to think about it once a day?

[@BeebaYes]

I’ve been obsessed with death since I could talk being an over thinker extraordinarie🤦🏻‍♂️ If you look at the spectrum of humanity from Jung in Western psychology through to cult leaders and ‘nutters’ on the fringes of societal function, funnily enough All are in agreement and All have an understanding, respect and knowledge of the existence of energy and resonance after our format metamorphosis labelled death. Ancient civilisations and societies since day dot worshipped and respected the dead, yet here We are the ones claiming absolute arrogant denial of that which can never be proven in the absolute. It’s only the arrogance of aspects of science that says ‘Prove it’ and thus falls flat in an existence where faith and belief are actually medium of operational cosmic dialogue.....and by definition death appears close to Magic thus is the opposing force of scientific knowledge due to everything that Cannot be known having to exist somewhere. Death is a blending aspect of this unknowable yet always felt transitional force between two worlds 🤷🏻‍♂️ Suffering is what’s scary, not death per se 🙏🏻

[@christianwoodley6348]

Who here would get cryogenically frozen? I might do that

[@Slofwad]

Get Aubrey de Grey on the show! Also check out the documentary THE FUTURE OF WORK AND DEATH, featuring Aubrey de Grey!

[@jtcybulski]

“Tribes that thought about death probably didn’t make technological progress” what about Rome? That tribe used the Gladiator games to desensitize the people to death. “He is learning to speak when he should be learning to be silent forever” Ernest Becker on death is a paragraph in the Romans conquest of death. They had philosophers back then too I think

[@gamesandthoughts2388]

Ah, no, not really. While those fights were to death, people weren't actually pondering the phenomena of death. They were more in a state of like watching pr0n of which death was just a part which brought them to the peak of excitement, but they didn't think about death and that crippling fear of your own non-existence, because otherwise there would just be a crowd of depressed and sad people.

[@jtcybulski]

@@gamesandthoughts2388 theres no way you can know thats true.

[@MonaMarMag]

Death is part of our life the same us birth is . That what circle of life is - Elton John sing about it in one of his songs .

[@chrisberry9070]

If an afterlife exists, then we never die, we just transition

[@StrideRunner68]

DENIAL OF DEATH YA THAT'S WHY AS A MAN WE PULL OUT A YOUNGER PARTNER.... USLY

[@StevenFalkner]

We will all finally meet God. Get a relationship with Jesus while there is still time…

[@jigsaw2253]

No

[@michaeldodd9260]

Nobody knows the truth and what happens with regards to death. That includes you as well bud

[@monopolybillionaire5027]

​@michaeldodd9260 we've been dead before we where born...for an unmeasured amount of time...don't you remember?

[@rsr4423]

Folks no one ever really ever dies. At one point we will all meet with God and spend eternity with Him or without Him We're a fallen people deserving due consequences of our sin. BUT the VERY good news is He gives the gift of life for free! If we believe in Him and that Christ died for us and repent of our sins Christs righteousness is imputed onto us! We'll be reconciled with God! God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 33:11) rather, Christ came so that we can have life, and life in ABUNDANCE! (John 10:10)

[@augustmoon0004]

If you are an adult in the 21st-century and still believe in an invisible sky fairy, I feel really sorry for you! The only reason you believe in Christianity is because you were taught it while you were young. If you were born in the Middle East and your parents were Muslim, you would be too! Think about that! Why is your God any more real than the thousands upon thousands of other gods? Really examine that! Because a book says so? There are plenty of books and writings that say their gods are real too. So no, that’s not the answer! Have any valid proof for the existence of any god? Don’t bother answering, you don’t!