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  • Someday, I will die.

  • But should I?

  • If I was offered a longer life,

  • I would take that in a second.

  • But how long is too long?

  • Is death something I should deny forever,

  • or is death and the role it plays in the universe

  • something I am better off accepting?

  • I want to start by looking at a particular way

  • death affects how we live and treat one another.

  • Terror Management Theory

  • proposes that people like you and me

  • manage the terror of death's inevitability

  • by embracing cultural values.

  • That the more aware a person is of their own mortality,

  • the more vehemently they will enforce

  • their particular views of the world onto others.

  • Created by social psychologists Sheldon Solomon,

  • Jeff Greenberg and Tom Pyszczynski,

  • Terror Management Theory, or TMT,

  • suggests that, often, we are afraid of change

  • because we're afraid of death.

  • Each one of us has a worldview,

  • a set of beliefs, customs and norms

  • we identify with that can live on

  • after our physical bodies die.

  • TMT suggest that rises in nationalism and prejudice

  • are correlated with rises in the salience of mortality.

  • That is, how present the inevitability of death is

  • in people's minds.

  • Now this role that death plays fascinates me,

  • and two of TMT's originators, Jeff and Sheldon,

  • have agreed to work with me on a pilot study

  • of Terror Management Theory

  • and real-life reminders of death.

  • What's your hypothesis today?

  • Well, I think we're going to hope for the participants

  • who are reminded of their mortality

  • to be more punitive in their assessments.

  • See what happens.

  • For our study,

  • we created a fake research center,

  • staffed by actors,

  • and invited participants to be a part

  • of what they were told was a focus group

  • about the criminal justice system.

  • During the actual study, each group will hear a list

  • of several different crimes that have been committed,

  • and will then be asked to propose a punishment

  • for each offender with a severity level

  • ranging from 1 to 7, with 1 being the most lenient

  • and 7 being the most severe.

  • The control group will simply enter the survey room

  • and be asked to answer the questions.

  • The experimental group, however,

  • will first be exposed

  • to reminders of their own mortality

  • with strategically placed posters in the lobby.

  • Also, the questionnaires they fill out

  • will include questions about their own death.

  • Decades of TMT research have shown that when presented

  • with violations of common worldviews,

  • those who are more aware of their own deaths

  • will recommend bigger punishments

  • for the crimes presented.

  • But will our real life reminders of death,

  • not just the survey questions usually used,

  • make a difference?

  • Well, first, let's look at the control participants.

  • [woman] Well, thank you so much for being here.

  • Now, I cannot emphasize this enough.

  • There are no right or wrong answers.

  • This is just about your gut-level reactions.

  • All right, let's begin.

  • After raising millions of dollars in grant money

  • to fund education for needy children,

  • a fundraising manager unhappy with this life

  • fled with all the money

  • and was arrested months later in Tasmania,

  • where he was living under a different name.

  • So, 1, least punishment: three months in prison;

  • 7 is most severe: ten years in prison.

  • Please answer now.

  • This is one that I think does have worldviews on both sides.

  • [Michael] That is a lot of 7s.

  • If our control group is already maxing out like that,

  • well, then our scale has no room in that direction

  • to show any effect of mortality salience.

  • Discovering issues like this, learning how to better isolate

  • mortality salience's effect,

  • is exactly what a pilot test is for.

  • Hey, personal differences, huh?

  • [woman] An imposter with no medical training

  • posed as a surgeon and bungled a minor operation

  • to remove a child's tonsils.

  • The patient recovered fully after additional treatment.

  • 1 is six months on probation, 7 is ten years in prison.

  • [Sheldon] Okay.

  • If you are taking on the persona of a doctor,

  • we would expect good behavior.

  • [woman] The surgeon botched the operation

  • and was found to be under the influence of narcotics,

  • causing her to have permanent hoarseness

  • and ruining her career.

  • A 16-year-old girl who had just received her license

  • drove through a red light,

  • hitting another car that was being driven

  • by a talented pianist.

  • A couple was taking their two children to the playground

  • when they saw a woman sunbathing nude.

  • Look at that. There could be a gender gap.

  • We're also learning a lot about the worldviews people have.

  • [Jeff] Yeah, absolutely.

  • An anti-government protester was arrested

  • for spray-painting profanities at the Lincoln Memorial

  • in Washington, D.C.

  • 1: 40 hours...

  • Wow, she went 1 right away.

  • She's not a fan of authority and rules.

  • [Sheldon] Yeah.

  • Okay, thank you so much for your time.

  • We really appreciate it.

  • All right, so here's the results

  • in a mathematical analysis.

  • These are averages per question.

  • These are the averages and medians per participant.

  • [Jeff] The 4s are great. The 3's great.

  • But this is ground for optimism, at least.

  • [Michael] 7 was the max sentencing value,

  • and our control group gave an average of 4.5.

  • I'm really happy with that as a control group.

  • Absolutely.

  • Now, our experimental groups.

  • Remember, they will be seeing posters that remind them

  • of their own mortality,

  • and will be asked different questions

  • in their questionnaire.

  • For example...

  • The point is to prime their mortality salience.

  • Let's see if this group is more punitive

  • towards worldview violations.

  • After raising millions of dollars

  • to fund education for needy children,

  • a fundraising manager fled with all the money

  • and was arrested months later in Tasmania.

  • 1: three months in prison;

  • 7: ten years in prison.

  • Please answer now.

  • Okay, he's thinking about it.

  • Please hold up your answers.

  • All right. Thank you so much.

  • Ah, okay.

  • [woman] An imposter with no medical training

  • posed as a surgeon and bungled a minor operation

  • to remove a child's tonsils.

  • 1: six months on probation;

  • 7: ten years in prison.

  • -They are thinking a lot more. -Yeah.

  • -[Sheldon] Wow. -[Michael] A 10.

  • I'm pretty sure she knows that 7 is the highest.

  • [Jeff] We'll call it a 7.

  • It's funny to see when people feel bold enough,

  • even though I'm breaking the bounds

  • and the rules of the task.

  • An anti-government protester was arrested

  • for spray-painting profanities at the Lincoln Memorial

  • in Washington, D.C.

  • [Sheldon] I really do appreciate the way

  • they clearly seem to be taking a bit more time

  • -to deliberate. -Yeah.

  • Okay, they can put the papers down,

  • and tell them that we will be in shortly.

  • [woman] Okay, thank you so much.

  • We've finished with this part of the study.

  • So if you won't mind hanging out for a moment,

  • and our researchers will be in here in a moment

  • to ask you a couple questions.

  • [Michael] Let's find out if the reminders of mortality

  • we showed our experimental group were salient enough.

  • [Jeff] Let me ask you about one thing.

  • Out in the waiting room,

  • did you all notice the posters at all?

  • [woman] Yes, they are all death-related.

  • Okay. All right.

  • Yeah.

  • -That's right. -[all laugh]

  • So we are looking into

  • something that's called Terror Management Theory.

  • And it's the idea that your own awareness of your mortality

  • can affect the behaviors that you exhibit.

  • That we all manage the terror that we feel

  • knowing that we are mortal, by behaving in certain ways,

  • especially in ways that reinforce our own worldviews.

  • Because we could kind of live on through the societies

  • and cultures and identities that we have today.

  • [Jeff] Did any of you feel like you were still thinking

  • a little bit about death when you came in here?

  • I was definitely going after people who transgressed

  • against my worldview, to use your term.

  • -Yes, I noticed that. -I was definitely doing that.

  • [Michael] So this was incredibly helpful.

  • -[Jeff] Yeah. -[Michael] Thank you very much.

  • [Jeff] Thanks so much. I appreciate.

  • [Michael] It looks like our experimental stimuli were successful.

  • They were salient, but didn't cause the participants

  • to think they were related to the study.

  • The control participants averaged about 4.5.

  • The experimental participants were close to 4.7,

  • if we round up.

  • So there's a slight tendency for the experimental people

  • to be leaning in the direction that we predicted.

  • But we're talking about

  • relatively inconsequential differences.

  • That's right. It just makes me hungry to run more people.

  • And with the number that we had,

  • that's statistically insignificant.

  • Do you think that we did see any effects

  • of mortality salience today?

  • [Jeff] I feel like the mortality salient groups

  • tended to think a little longer before responding.

  • Yeah, me too.

  • [Jeff] And they seemed more thoughtful.

  • -They were really-- -They put more effort into it,

  • into trying to do the right thing.

  • The difference was dramatic enough that we picked up on it.

  • -Absolutely. -Although our stimuli

  • might need to go through more passes and more vetting,

  • we did find an interesting difference

  • in the time it took

  • for our groups to respond.

  • Our control group took an average

  • of 4 minutes and 46 seconds to decide on their punishments,

  • but our experimental group

  • took an average of 7 minutes, 18 seconds.

  • In a sense, that really is the prediction.

  • The right thing by their own worldview,

  • but by the same token, when we think about death,

  • we want to do what's right.

  • And if we're acting like jurors,

  • we want to make the right decisions.

  • As we very much learned today,

  • the goal isn't to prove one thing one way or the other.

  • It's just to reduce uncertainty...

  • -That's correct. -...in the most careful way.

  • Absolutely. To know a little bit more today than yesterday.

  • [Jeff] Yeah.

  • [Michael] Our pilot test shows

  • that there's still a lot to discover

  • about terror management

  • and many promising ways to do it.

  • I'm particularly intrigued by our observation

  • that for all the closed-mindedness

  • mortality salience appears to cause,

  • it also lead to what looked like

  • increased consideration and thought.

  • I'd love to see more research on that idea.

  • But the point is this:

  • if death's effects aren't all entirely bad,

  • what if, instead of,

  • or at least at the same time

  • that we hope for the abolition of natural death,

  • we also find a way to accept it?

  • Now, obviously I don't want to die, at least not soon.

  • But accepting the inevitability of my own death

  • and being less afraid of it feels powerful and honest.

  • I'd like to learn what that looks like.

  • And I have a friend who can help.

  • I'm paying a visit to Caitlin Doughty,

  • a mortician, author, and death positivity activist,

  • who has made an entire career out of discussing

  • the aspects of death that most of us prefer to ignore.

  • What do you say to someone who comes to you and says,

  • "I think death is terrifying. It's...

  • "so scary and sad

  • that I'm just here now"?

  • Is this person dying, or is this person...?

  • This person is me in front of you right now.

  • This person is you. Okay, so...

  • I would tell you a couple things.

  • First, you're dealing with the primal existential quandary

  • of human existence.

  • -Yes. -And you are one of, you know,

  • the many billions of people who have felt this.

  • So you're not alone in feeling this way.

  • So we go through life-- We reach a certain age,

  • and we begin to understand

  • that someday ourselves and everyone we love will die.

  • And that's powerful, painful knowledge.

  • And I think from that moment,

  • We have to start developing defense mechanisms

  • to handle that and to integrate that into our lives.

  • So, what are those defense mechanisms?

  • I think that the more obvious ones would be having a child,

  • writing a book, making a TV show,

  • creating a legacy of some kind.

  • But there's also a more insidious version,

  • which is war.

  • Taking other countries.

  • Being rich and being okay with other people being poor.

  • I think those are all signs of death denial.

  • They're all saying,

  • "But I'm okay, because I have this money,

  • "or I have this power, or I have these kind of dark impulses

  • that allow me to say, at least I can outrun death in that way."

  • And, of course, that's not true.

  • No one can outrun death.

  • But you can trick yourself into believing that.

  • So how would you characterize

  • the Western relationship to death?

  • Take America 150 years ago.

  • If you were my husband and you died,

  • I would be entirely in charge of you.

  • I would wash your body.

  • I would get the neighbor to make a wooden coffin for you.

  • We would put you in the coffin and carry you on our shoulders,

  • to the grave which someone had dug themselves.

  • -Right. -It would have been

  • an entirely self-sufficient process.

  • But what happened around the turn of the 20th century

  • is really three big things in my mind.

  • One, you had the rise of hospitals.

  • So people were no longer dying at home.

  • You had the rise of funeral homes,

  • which means that we are now outsourcing our death.

  • The third one is slaughterhouses.

  • So all of a sudden, all food production

  • and the killing of animals is also hidden as well.

  • And we live in our suburban houses,

  • where all those things are outsourced.

  • And it's just these layers and layers of denial around death.

  • But what does it mean to accept death?

  • I don't think that you ever truly accept death.

  • But I believe that the movement toward accepting death

  • involves really true self-awareness

  • about where you're hiding your fears of death.

  • That's where real awareness and acceptance can come from.

  • For me, the thing that's just such a bummer about death

  • is that I just am done.

  • I don't get to continue learning things

  • and seeing what happens.

  • And I'm just not part of Earth anymore.

  • Isn't death kind of what gives you that passion,

  • when you think about it?

  • Like, I love learning, I love ideas.

  • If you didn't have an end point, are you going to come in here

  • with all these cameras and do the huge amount of legwork

  • -that creating a show requires? -No.

  • No. Right. Because you're like, "I don't know, maybe I'll do it

  • 200 years from now."

  • Whereas right now, you're taking in information left and right,

  • because you want to produce content.

  • You want to produce exciting things

  • and share with other people...

  • -Because this is my one chance. -This is your one chance.

  • The passion and the realness to life comes from an ending.

  • That's the great gift that death gives us.

  • What's an unhealthy relationship to have to your own mortality?

  • The pursuit of immortality,

  • and the pursuit of, "I will stay alive

  • until I can upload my brain into the cloud."

  • That worries me.

  • The idea that everyone is just allowed

  • to live forever from here on out

  • is not environmentally sensible.

  • It's not-- You know, it's just not a sensible position to take.

  • [narrator] We are seeing the dawn

  • of a new era of possibilities unfold

  • on planet Earth.

  • What will our amazing world be like in, say, 80,

  • 100, or even 200 years from now?

  • Wouldn't you like the possibility

  • of finding out?

  • [Michael] To understand why some people

  • feel like death shouldn't be inevitable,

  • I've come to Alcor,

  • one of the world's leading life extension facilities.

  • -Linda. Hi, I'm Michael. -Hi, how are you?

  • -Great to meet you. -Nice to meet you too.

  • -Welcome to Alcor. -Thank you for having me here.

  • I'm meeting Linda Chamberlin,

  • who co-founded Alcor nearly 46 years ago.

  • So this facility that we are in right now

  • is where you both cryo-preserve people and store them.

  • [Linda] Yes. We have 160 patients.

  • -Wow. -And we have

  • eleven hundred and ninety-something members.

  • -It changes. -And a member is someone

  • -who is alive today but has... -Alive today.

  • They've made the arrangements for this.

  • Once they are cryo-preserved, they become patients.

  • You're using the word "patient."

  • -Yes. -Okay.

  • Tell me about why you use that word.

  • For us, death is not something which is like an on/off switch.

  • One second you're alive, the next second you're dead.

  • -Mm-hmm. -What we are trying to do

  • is to slow down and stop the dying process.

  • [Michael] To become a patient at Alcor,

  • first you have to pay between 80 and $200,000

  • Then you have to die,

  • or more specifically, be pronounced clinically dead.

  • This generally means that your heart and lungs

  • have stopped functioning.

  • At that point, Alcor can begin their work.

  • Now, there are two ways that a person could sign up

  • for this procedure.

  • There's a whole-body patient, or as a neuro.

  • Oh, and does "neuro" just mean head?

  • It means, yes, the cephalon, actually,

  • which is all of the structures down to about the clavicle.

  • -Uh-huh. -I'm a neuro.

  • Everybody in my family, who's now in stasis, is a neuro.

  • -Really? -Most of the people

  • who really understand the technology are neuros.

  • The primary reason that people choose whole body is emotional.

  • -Of course. -And they're not comfortable

  • with the idea of their body being removed and discarded.

  • So let's say that our patient is whole body.

  • The moment the patient is pronounced,

  • they go into an ice bath.

  • And this is just crushed ice.

  • And it's water in there as well.

  • Their heart has started again with a mechanical thumper.

  • They're intubated, and their lungs are functioning again.

  • Being ventilated.

  • Circulating the cooler temperatures.

  • Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you need the veins,

  • the arteries, the vasculature, the heart.

  • You need all of those continuing to pump and circulate.

  • [Linda] This is our operating room.

  • [Michael] Wow.

  • So basically,

  • when the patient comes in through the door there,

  • they'll go into this specially developed operating table.

  • It is going to be circulating nitrogen gas over them

  • to help cool them externally.

  • And if it's a whole-body patient,

  • then the surgeons open the chest,

  • and then we begin circulating the organ transplant solution.

  • [Michael] Once in the operating room,

  • the patient's blood is replaced

  • with cooled organ transplant fluid

  • and circulated through the vascular system

  • to rapidly cool down the internal

  • and external temperatures of the body.

  • Just before the water within the body tissue

  • reaches its freezing point,

  • cryo-protective fluids are introduced.

  • These act like antifreeze,

  • preventing the formation of ice crystals

  • that could damage soft tissue.

  • This is called the vitrification process.

  • Now, say that it is a neuro patient.

  • -So they come in first here. -Yup, their whole body.

  • Right. The surgeons will do the neuro separation first.

  • -Okay, yeah, that makes sense. -Separate the cephalon,

  • which is all of the structures down to about the clavicle.

  • Bring it over here

  • to this operating field.

  • We'll wash the blood out.

  • And we introduce the organ transplant solution.

  • I'm imagining a person's cephalon,

  • essentially their head, in here.

  • I can see how it's going to get clamped in.

  • [Linda] Yeah.

  • [Michael] That looks like, I'm sure,

  • a crazy sci-fi movie.

  • -But it really happens. -It really happens.

  • [Michael] After the vitrification process is complete,

  • the patients are placed inside bags

  • that are attached to open metal cases,

  • which are then placed inside cylindrical tanks

  • filled with liquid nitrogen, called dewars.

  • So this is our patient care bay.

  • We have 159 patients.

  • -In these tanks right here? -In these tanks.

  • There are approximately

  • nine patients in each one of these.

  • Four whole bodies and five neuros.

  • This one right here

  • is where my husband is currently housed.

  • -This one right here? -Right.

  • This is where Fred is at the moment.

  • My mother and my father-in-law are...

  • in this one.

  • [Michael] Wow, it's so weird,

  • because I am right now not in a graveyard.

  • No. Alcor is very much like an ambulance

  • taking their loved ones to a hospital

  • not down the street,

  • -but a hospital in the future. -Yeah.

  • When technology can help them.

  • They're not being transported through space,

  • -but through time. -Time.

  • [Michael] To see what drives this time-traveling ambulance,

  • I'm going to sit down with Max More,

  • Alcor's CEO, and a future neuro patient.

  • So, Max, what's the status of the technology needed

  • to revive cryo-preserved specimens?

  • -Are we getting closer? -We are getting closer.

  • It's going to be decades, at least,

  • before we can bring back whole human beings.

  • But we already cryo-preserve eggs, sperm,

  • microbes of skin, corneas,

  • heart valves, all kinds of things.

  • So those are single tissues. And we can reverse that process.

  • -Mm-hmm. -You move from that to an organ,

  • things get more difficult.

  • But we actually did an experiment a few years ago.

  • We took this little tiny worm.

  • We used a certain chemical so we'd learn that,

  • oh, my food's over here and not over here.

  • And we cryo-preserved them.

  • And then we just waited, brought them back,

  • and then we tested them.

  • We were able to demonstrate with the memory test

  • that the ones that have received the training

  • retained that memory.

  • So it was the first time any organism

  • we've proven to survive with memory.

  • So now we're asking, okay, what's the next step?

  • Because whole organisms are difficult to reverse right now.

  • But step by step, the more progress we can make,

  • -the more convincing this is. -Wow.

  • When it comes to extending life,

  • some questions come up, like, "should people die?"

  • I know we don't like the idea of death.

  • -I know what you're getting at. -But you lose something

  • by getting rid of death.

  • Yeah, we'll lose something

  • like we lost something when we got rid of slavery

  • or smallpox.

  • So I think people...

  • people are tying themselves in knots to rationalize death.

  • I believe that, right now,

  • we're kind of in this tragic situation where,

  • over time, hopefully you kind of learn.

  • Your wisdom grows over time.

  • At the same time,

  • your cognitive and physical health is declining.

  • That really sucks. That's a bad situation.

  • What if they both could keep going up indefinitely?

  • So you could live for hundreds of years or longer,

  • and get smarter, and more knowledgeable, and wiser.

  • Hopefully more mature, and have more foresight

  • because you got a much longer planning horizon.

  • What we'll have is a world of, I call, ultra-mature people,

  • which I think will actually be a better world

  • than the one we have today.

  • And if they say, well-- And this comes up all the time.

  • They say, "Well, death is what gives life meaning."

  • Bullshit, okay? If that was true,

  • then would they also advocate people who live to 90

  • should be killed off at 45?

  • Will that double the meaning in their life?

  • In fact, I think life gets more meaning the longer you live,

  • because you can build on what you've done before.

  • So if anything, it increases the meaningfulness of life,

  • in my view.

  • You're making me realize that, in many ways,

  • I am rationalizing death.

  • I'm looking for ways to excuse it and accept it.

  • I don't think it's unhealthy to accept that you are mortal.

  • Well, I have to accept it,

  • because I could get killed at any time.

  • One thing I have to stress,

  • because every article written,

  • they always have to use the word "forever,"

  • or "immortality."

  • And that's not on the table here.

  • We're just offering a chance for people to be revived

  • when we've beaten aging.

  • And eventually something's going to get you.

  • So we're not offering immortality.

  • We're offering an unknown extension of human lifespan.

  • Do I think that someday we will be able to cryonically freeze

  • an entire person and then revive them?

  • Yes, I do.

  • I believe that cryopreservation

  • will change the meaning of death,

  • and lead to breakthroughs in medical technology

  • that will improve all of our lives.

  • But do I want to extend my life indefinitely?

  • Well, on the one hand,

  • obviously death is a bummer.

  • But on the other,

  • the universe managed fine without me

  • for billions of years.

  • Am I really so important

  • that it should never not have me again?

  • Should I be around as long as possible?

  • Or do those who will come later deserve their own world?

  • Should I try to extend my life?

  • Or should I decide to die when my time comes

  • and return all this matter I'm borrowing back to the world?

  • Well, I don't think there's a right answer.

  • It's a personal choice we each get to make,

  • and should be able to make.

  • And I've been thinking about it a lot.

  • So I'm going to speak again with my friend Caitlin,

  • the mortician, to confront my own mortality.

  • Well, Caitlin, thanks for meeting with me again.

  • I've been surrounded by death lately.

  • Spoke to you. I visited Alcor.

  • And, you know,

  • if we never invented technology to bring people back,

  • then the Alcor patients are dead.

  • But they have that hope.

  • I worked on Terror Management Theory.

  • And I even had a loved one pass away just two weeks ago.

  • -My grandmother. -Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.

  • She was cremated, as was my father.

  • And I realized, you know,

  • I've never made a clear decision about what should happen to me.

  • Because I just figured

  • I'll figure that out when I'm older.

  • -But I could die at any time. -You sure could.

  • So I want to be prepared.

  • And I want my wishes to be known.

  • -Yeah. -So I have decided

  • when that moment comes,

  • I want it to be my final moment of existence.

  • I want to give all my atoms and molecules back to the universe.

  • And I've decided that I want to die.

  • Oh, I'm so glad you've made that decision.

  • And you've come to the right place.

  • I want to be naturally buried.

  • I want to have a green burial.

  • You know, become worm food and plant food.

  • I want it all to go back to earth.

  • But I kind of want a place where people can come

  • to be like, that's where he was buried.

  • So there's everything from just little discs in the ground

  • where you are, to GPS that locates you,

  • to natural cemeteries

  • that are trying to reintroduce native plants.

  • -Yeah, yeah, yeah. -So, you know,

  • you can have your own Joshua tree.

  • So the first thing I'm going to give you to give a look over

  • is what's called an advanced directive.

  • -Okay. -And everybody needs

  • to have one of these.

  • And why it's so important is that it's you

  • not only designating someone to be in charge of your body

  • as you're dying, right after you die,

  • and then with however you decide to dispose of it.

  • But also who that person is.

  • So this isn't just about burial. This is dying.

  • It's about death, dying, death and after death.

  • -Interesting. -Mm-hmm.

  • [Michael] A choice like this

  • is extremely new to humans.

  • It used to be your only options upon death

  • were cremation, embalming, or rotting away.

  • But today, you can chose to pause yourself at death's door

  • until the door has been moved somewhere else.

  • But I've decided not to do that.

  • So I'm ready to make this official.

  • -Fire in the hole. -Okay.

  • -Whoo! All right. -How do you feel?

  • Weirdly, I feel very relaxed and good.

  • It was kind of life-changing, but what it really was

  • was death-changing.

  • Ha, well, thank you, and I'm glad you've decided to die.

  • Thank you.

  • Jeff and Sheldon,

  • thank you for showing me the power of death's influence.

  • Caitlin, thank you for helping me accept it.

  • Max, thank you for the work you are doing

  • and the opportunities you are offering humanity.

  • And, all you out there, as always, thanks for watching.

Someday, I will die.

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