Ep. 53: How to Die ft. Sohrab Ahmari

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Death is real. It's not going away, and no amount of risk management can stave it off. So what do we do about it? In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan talks with journalist and editor Sohrab Ahmari about the Stoic Seneca's approach to death, as discussed in Ahmari's new book, "The Unbroken Thread."

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0:00.0	Guys, let's talk about death.
0:07.0	Death is a subject that we never talk about.
0:09.3	We try our best not to think about it.
0:12.3	In our culture, we try to shove it as far away as possible.
0:16.9	We try to delay it as long as possible.
0:19.8	We try to pretend it doesn't exist.
0:21.9	We try to minimize all risk,
0:24.0	which is as we've learned over the past year of coronavirus.
0:26.8	A fool's errand risk exists everywhere and anytime you try to mitigate it in one area,
0:32.8	you incur it in another area.
0:34.8	A classic example of this was when they pulled the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
0:38.8	because it caused blood clots and very, very few women.
0:43.8	If you think about that for one second, right,
0:46.8	you shut down the whole world because coronavirus is the risk to end all risks.
0:51.8	But then you shut down a vaccine which prevents coronavirus
0:55.8	because it causes risks.
0:57.8	The thing that is just in front of our attention right now that causes risks
1:01.8	is the thing that we freak out about without acknowledging that risk is everywhere.
1:04.8	Death is everywhere.
1:05.8	People die.
1:06.8	A hundred percent of humans die.
1:08.8	The death rate of humanity is 100 percent.
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