People are afraid to talk about death, therefore as a society, we lack the understanding. As if we wont experience death in one way or another. People will lose their parents, children, spouse and a majority of people are not ready. They will sit in grief and in awe of how the world just keeps on keeping on, while yours comes crashing down,
My husband spoke and even preached for many years about how dying was not a big deal until his moment came. He died 2 weeks ago, oh but how he battled because he did not want to die yet. He was 70 years old
One may not accept it if that's their best way to cope. Healthy individuals have plenty maladaptive coping mechanisms... I can only imagine it's harder on already vulnerable ones to manage their coping mechanisms. Regardless of whether or not one accepts it, they must be made as comfortable as possible in those terrifying moments. Hope he was, RIP!
Not wanting to die is not the same as being afraid to die. When I was a child, I was told that it was time for bed. Everyone else was watching TV or chatting and laughing. I wasn't afraid to go to bed. I just didn't WANT to ! I wonder how I might have felt if I knew that everyone else was going to bed at the same time. I wonder how I would feel if, when it was my time to die, I knew that everyone on the planet was going to die at the same time !
Yeah I'd definitely want her to come home with me. I'd tell her an Immortality Freak was visiting me at my home - "Come over and talk some sense into him." Then I get her back to my place - PLY her with Rolaids-laced (powdered) Fiber !! .
I'm only on my my late teens and I know there's alot of people similar to my age that fear death and I was that kind of person. For weeks I have lost alot of sleep due to constant fear of death and it really affected on my studies. I remember waking up frantically screaming,shaking and Crying with fear of the thought about it . By this I've also was scared to going to sleep due to me having thoughts of death. I felt alone and by my self and I dint rlly wanna talk about just in case I also brought fear about death to other people. Until I started to do some research of how to cope with death and morality by doing this became understanding why I feared death. I've reach to a conclusion that I'm still young and haven't done much in my life this is my I feared death due to lack of accomplishment on my life,along side with just being afraid of not experiencing or existing. Another thing that help me reduce my fear of death is creating a bucket list and planning to do them. In addition to that I've also read some people's experience and how to deal with death anxiety. This then lead me to talk about it more openly to other people that I know and we sometimes we have a good heart to heart conversation. It'll be a lie if I said I'm no longer afraid of death, I still am but much less about it because it's not under my control it's beyond me. So by having increase advances of life expectancy it'll probably will come to the point that only you get to choose when to end it which for me is far more worst.
I feel the same way but every time I go to sleep I try to think that since my body was made by such great power the same power that moves planets 🪐 and the same energy that grows the grass the trees then I think my heart beat functions with such a great energy too !!!🙌🏼🙌🏼
True but what value do your future accomplishments have if we turn to only dust after death and we won't be held responsible of our actions in this life? All people fear death in a way believe me. I see people die on my call every week and I have never seen a dying person pass away in their last moments not experiencing anxiety! This should start us to wonder why that is. One of the logical explanations is that we know instinctly that there is life after death and are not sure whether or not we worked properly to ensure that we take good places in it!
The idea of taking a break from life sometimes sounds really relieving. I believe there will be a possibility to live life that in the future, as many don't want to live continuously, and some want to be gone forever.
Dying slowly is the horror. Because it sneaks up on you as you continue to get acclimated to progressive lost capabilities. If I had been asked 10 years ago if I would be willing to continue living under the current circumstances I am experiencing, I would have scoffed and said “Of course not. I’ll off myself long before I reach such a state.” And yet here I am, still alive. One of my greatest fears is I’ll continue accepting the downhill slide until I’m bed-bound and incapable of terminating my existence.
pentti k--Absolutely. Aging sucks. It's a slow, slalom and somewhat painful run to the bedfast ward of the long-term nursing facility. Pehaps DEATH is God's/nature's way of saying, "Tired of all this? Well, here's your ticket out."
@@Mekratrig i'm sure lots of people agree with such view. Especially when one is in its prime and says oh i would never accept living that way in that condition... but when things goes downhill you see that life is the only thing which is tangible, and beyond is unknown, so let us stay here for little a bit longer. What's coming will come anyways so why to rush.
This is so true. I find that when I try and discuss dying with my friends and family, the exception being my sister, people will always attempt to change the subject. Why is everyone so afraid, I would hate to think of living forever!
The reason death is so scary is because your brain can't wrap itself around you ceasing to exist. How can things happen without us seeing and perceiving them? Our subconscious asks. On the other hand, in Tuck Everlasting, the driving quote was: "death is not scary. What's scary is living forever." I haven't watched that movie since I was a very young child, but the quote has stuck with me
That's a logical fallacy. Living forever implies having infinite memory space in your brain/afterlife-soul, otherwise you would be able to remember an infinitely long life, and you're effectively just deleting and re-writing your memory. If you do assume infinite memory space, your complexity scales accordingly and you wouldn't necessarily "get bored" ever.
“This place is a dream . Only a sleeper considers it real . Then death comes like dawn , and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief “ . Rumi
I just hope and pray that I won't be a burden to others. I've seen to many family Caregivers destroy their lives while taking care of loved ones that refuse to take responsibility for their final years.
So make sure you take responsibility and prepare for yours. My Mum tried to give all us kids money and I refused. I'm glad I did as she needed it for a care home - I visited every day until she passed, but there's no way I could have cared for her. Way past my abilities
Leaving your body permanently (physical death) might not be that bad. The BAD part is not knowing HOW you will die and how long you will be in pain and/or discomfort. Some people die in their sleep while for others it takes years of debilitating diseases including pain, discomfort, surgeries and loss of independence before they die. Huge difference!
What a wonderful lecture. We do not hear such truths often, as many people are so uncomfortable with the notion of death. I truly believe that if we were encouraged to talk about death from an early age, we would come to the realisations and understandings so beautifully expressed in this video. Thank you, Lesley Hazleton.
@@karstdeviz3858 I kind of can't imagine there just being nothing, something that exist can't graps the idea of not existing...but humans, like all living things are alive because of energy, right? Where does that energy go? Does it just disappear into thin air??
Ends are nothing but new beginnings, and I am not who I was yesterday. Who I was yesterday is now who I was ten years ago. If you can't find or make something to interest you in that vast expanse of experience, then you're doing something wrong. Chronic depression is not an argument against a potential eternal life, but an argument that some people don't want to live.
The only thing I am afraid of is living a pointless life. The lady speaker is asking the right question. What's wrong with dying? I think a person's life is their own. And if someone wants to end theirs then that is their business.
that's one way to look at it... but it's not like life on earth is a repeat of the same things. you meet new people, you learn new things, you always have something else to achieve, someone else to help, some other person's life to pour into and nurture. if you're living for yourself it might get boring. but if you're living to inspire and better the lives of those around you, you may get tired but I doubt you'd actively wish for it to end. I don't think death is a bad thing but I also don't see life as entirely meaningless either.
Look, if you want to die that's fine. If you think people who don't want to die are silly, that's fine too. But if you even hint at trying to force those beliefs onto others, there will be big problems. Also, "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." -- Albert Camus
Toni Deveraux - As long as technology continues to advance, death and disease will become rare and possibly 100% optional at some point. That's probably the mindset of the guy taking the supplements. There will always be new challenges for those with the will to face them. But you can lay down and accept failure any time you choose.
The real cowards are those that are so afraid of death that they've accepted it, accepting death is another way of refusing to think about it. They refuse to see a different option to dying of old age because they're afraid of missing out. Rather than fighting death, they give up and stick to the safety of what used to be, while also dragging others into death so they're not alone.
If immortality within reach, humans will reach new frontiers beyond our current imagination. think of individuals being able to acquire hundred of years of experience and multidisciplinary knowledge. speaking of how tedious and boring immirtal life will be is an act of narrow minded people. the beauty, excitement and amusement in the ever changing scientific challenges are endless.
I agree with you. And it's not just science. Art and culture as well as society in general will benefit. Not just the individual. The arguments against living indefinitely are always narrow sighted and opponents of indefinite lifespans like to focus on people's fears - rich people, overpopulation, etc. I've never understood why they even need an argument against living indefinitely. If you don't want to live beyond a certain age you are free to terminate your existence. No one is going to force this lady to live any longer than she wants to. In contrast her opposition to longer or indeed indefinite lives could hurt the people who do want to live longer.
Anonymous Man Yes, she is sending a wrong message about life extension enthusiasts with her "man on supplements example!" ignoring the real work on tolmeres, senescent cells, genetics and free radicals "just to name a few". it's a disgrace to find such video on TED it ought to be nothing but comic hogwash.
Even if humanity reached immortality on Earth the Universe is doomed to die itself so either way unless we find another universe or artificially save the sun from dying out we will also perish.
We rightfully crave for eternity rather than immortality. And we have it - if we just take the time to feel it. Like Spinoza said: "We feel that we are eternal."
i'm scared of death. i'm scared for when it comes to my family, i'm scared for when it comes to me. i'm scared of not being able to see any of them again. i'm scared of not being in the world anymore while it keeps going and changing
Love this lady. Bunch of scared cowards we are. Being afraid of death is akin to fearing the sun rising because my friends that shit is coming for us all. Take it like a man you whimpering simpletons
Being scared of death is completely normal, it's just as natural as the sun rising, or death itself . Fearing death is the strongest instinct in all animals, even people with severe alzheimer's disease fear death. To mold your mind so that you stop fearing death, that is just as unnatural as ending aging, or going into space, or sleeping in a bed, or using the Internet, or wearing clothes, etc.
Many have died before us. Historically speaking, it’s natural and everyone faces it. We repopulate, or not, and everything goes on until there is nothing left. Death is part of life, you can live forever until your not, your loved ones would be gone, or maybe the planet, universe, etc. Can it still be called being “alive” then..?
People kinda romanticize "the golden years", but the truth is, retirement is disease and frailty, boredom and bodily fluids. I can't do anything of what I want to do, if I'm old and frail. Its all too dangerous for a frail elderly body and brain.
As someone who is religious I do disagree, but I do understand where she's coming from. It does seem like life loses its intrinsic value if its only a precursor to another, however, as written in several scriptures, life is still a fleeting and mysterious thing and an afterlife does not take away from the preciousness of life in my eyes, but adds to it.
The fact that the world will become overpopulated. We will die one way or another. We would run out of food if we all lived forever and kept repopulating. It’s a nice idea, but eternal life has so many flaws.
Old comment but I had to respond. You are answering your own question. It is NEVER one and the other. People do not get to choose euthanasia right now. What makes you think this would be different in a world where we live forever?
muffinn it's a cool movie to watch at least once, it's a about time being the new currency of the future, the rich living forever basically while the poor die in great numbers.
Her point is relative and different for everyone. For young children who are dying of cancer, they would view Lesley Hazleton's life as living almost forever. For people approaching 100 years of age, they would look at Lesley as a youngster. For people in third world countries, just as in ancient times, they are dying before age 30. As recent as the 1900's many people died around age 50. So to be able to live an average of today's 74 years back in olden days, would be viewed almost as a type of eternal life. I'm sure in the future, the average lifespan will increase to over 100, unless wars, disease, and natural disasters step in to cull the world populations down to a more reasonable size. We are at 7 Billion humans now. 50 years ago the world had less than 2 1/2 billion. The world can only accommodate so many until circumstances and nature reduce populations. Natural law.
I appreciate death. I’m scared of my own death, but I appreciate it. Think of how selfish not dying is. The world will become overpopulated. And when it’s overpopulated, we run out of food. Which means people will die anyway. You cannot rid death, so enjoy life while you have it.
In the future there may be a solution to overpopulation. Technology is developing faster than ever before, and we will be able to do things we've never been able to do before. There may even be a possibility to allow everyone to live until they want to die, by adjusting the amount of kids of every individual and the time between having kids. I was born in 2001, and I am looking forward to the future.
@@freeunderratedmusic4273 I agree. We also could colonize other planets in the future. I was born in 1992 and i have some doubt that we will have the technology in time before my time is up but i do really believe one day in the future death can be completely avoided.
i mean if your only concern is overpopluation we probabaly can solve it. The most apparent answer is less children will be born. Just look the birth rate of the most advanced nations.
I wish I had her level of acceptance. I suffer from anxiety and after a dream involving the rather dramatic spectacle of death-by-nuke of myself and my family, followed by an odd waking moment from the dream where my eyes were still closed, i felt i was conscious, but in some black void, until I opened my eyes, and needless to say that experience fucked me up... I'm now terrified of dying and I feel like I have so little time left now and I'm only 33. My quality of life is turning to shit because of it. I just can't bring myself to accept it, or ignore it's inevitability. Hats off to this lady.
There are two kinds of people. One who live their lives for experiences, to enjoy stuff. People, who may be happy in their lives and who may make other people happy, but also people who haven't developed a real interest in life. The other kind of people have certain quest in their life that extends beyond living through life experiences. Eg., to learn about particle physics, or to learn how to improvise jazz music. Now, people of the first kind will easily get bored after the first 70 years. But people of the second kind could be there for hundreds of years and still be happy and eager to learn more. I think people like Einstein, Darwin or Charlie Parker could live for 700 years and they wouldn't be bored.
ALLAH says in Quran " He who created death and life" , Death is mentioned before Life to emphasize the importance of the latter ! Which is what the lecturer is trying to make us comprehend!
If you study life carefully enough, you'll realize the cyclical nature of things and events...everything that vibrates, especially if it's endowed with any semblance of awareness, operates within a breathing process. Breath itself, the heartbeat, waking/sleeping, day/night, work/play, pleasure/pain, life/death. *Life/death is a cycle* ... which means it will repeat itself, like any other cyclical dynamic. Moreover, science now supports the continuum of the animus (soul). Sciences such as remote viewing, hypnotherapy, and to some reliably repeatable and therefore verifiable extent, psychism itself.
Great lecture. Brings everything into focus as life is finite. No question about that, and it is natural to die. We may not know when that will occur, and for that reason at least to me, I enjoy each day, the best that I can, knowing I may not see another sunrise or sunset, so that I stop and enjoy it !
thats the ONLY right answer , aging is a disease and we should stop it , so ppl can decide weither they want to spend more time with their loved ones or not .
As one of the characters in my Hades and Persephone retelling told her immortal love interest, who was trying to rush her into living forever: "Forever is a long, long time."
She may not be religious but she's definitely along the lines of those spirituals. Why would life lose meaning by prolonging it? Saying that life can only appreciated by dying is just like saying happiness can only be achieved by suffering. Also, getting bored because of 'immortality' is for people lacking imagination. You now have this wonderful universe to explore all of your life, what could possibly make you bored? You can't even watch all these RUclips vids even if you have 2000 yeafs of lifetime.
You don't need to die, you just have to pause living for a while. And that time might be the intermezzo between death and birth. I hope this life's suffering leads to a huge sigh of relieve after dying. And then I'll be able to enjoy great things again, cause they are no longer boring.
The problem is with life, not death. Life is the tragedy because it is too short. It took 17 billion years worth of physics, chemistry, biology, evolution and luck just to bring you into existence which may last only 70 to 85 years. Turtles can live for 150 years, and some trees for over a thousand years. But perhaps we should be grateful we live longer than cats or even gnats that can die in a day. Still, it seems to short as you see a larger pile of sand in the bottom of the hour glass than in the top.
Well spoken lady, Those who doesn't understand her, let me elaborate. Death soon comes to everyone. Your legacy is not while you are living but after your dead. It's your book and how you want it written. It's too deep go further but your life does have a meaning. I can go farther but that's another whole subject.
Probably 99.9999% of all people are forgotten as if they never existed, probably because they were unremarkable. How well do you know your ancestors from 15,000 years ago? If I cure all diseases or build a clean energy system, and then live another 50 years, does my achievement have no value until after I'm dead? People are enjoying the fruits of their own legacy right now. As long as technology continues to advance, death will become rare and ideally eliminated (except as a conscious choice). Actively managing a living legacy sounds better to me than trusting it to some buffoon in the future.
Jim Fixx--an ardent health and exercise enthusiast--died in his early forties of a heart attack. Genetics can't be bribed or altered, at least so far. The health enthusiast in the opening of this vlog who is taking all those nutritional supplements apparently hasn't reckoned with genetics, let alone the vicissitudes of life such as plane crashes, car accidents, random drive-by shootings, street stabbings, or any other unplanned catastrophes that can--and will--end one's life. Life well and fully...because you're going to die anyway.
I think the car crash death would have been rather cool. When the alternative is dribbling into your incontinence pants hooked up to tubes in a nursing home I would definitely rather go out on a racetrack.
This lady is pure gold. Its so easy to be mesmerized by her and love her in just 11 mins and 40 secs. ❤️
People are afraid to talk about death, therefore as a society, we lack the understanding. As if we wont experience death in one way or another. People will lose their parents, children, spouse and a majority of people are not ready. They will sit in grief and in awe of how the world just keeps on keeping on, while yours comes crashing down,
An expert speaker delivering her speech in profound,humorous and graceful manner .Such speakers are rare.
My husband spoke and even preached for many years about how dying was not a big deal until his moment came. He died 2 weeks ago, oh but how he battled because he did not want to die yet. He was 70 years old
That's why we have to do the work of realizing who and what we truly are.
One may not accept it if that's their best way to cope. Healthy individuals have plenty maladaptive coping mechanisms... I can only imagine it's harder on already vulnerable ones to manage their coping mechanisms. Regardless of whether or not one accepts it, they must be made as comfortable as possible in those terrifying moments. Hope he was, RIP!
Not wanting to die is not the same as being afraid to die.
When I was a child, I was told that it was time for bed.
Everyone else was watching TV or chatting and laughing.
I wasn't afraid to go to bed.
I just didn't WANT to !
I wonder how I might have felt if I knew that everyone else was going to bed at the same time.
I wonder how I would feel if, when it was my time to die, I knew that everyone on the planet was going to die at the same time !
“ It’s not how long I lived that matters, it’s how I lived and I intend to do it well till the end”
amen and i like this lady but shes forgetting the various ways people die that age has nothign to do with t, pet peeve
This woman changed my perspective of life and death. Thank you so much!
She is the type of person I would like to meet at a cocktail party!
Me, too
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Yeah I'd definitely want her to come home with me.
I'd tell her an Immortality Freak was visiting me at my home -
"Come over and talk some sense into him."
Then I get her back to my place - PLY her with Rolaids-laced (powdered) Fiber !!
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Her voice is so soothing
Right? I could listen to her talk all day.
Yes, her voice is verrrrry soothing, sounded the same before she understood the truth... oh how we find fault in someone when the truth is spoken...
I could listen to her for hours!!
I know!
Agreed. Real "Grandma Voice". If only her message wasn't so horrifying...
Her voice ist really calming and fascinating.
I second that. That's what smoking 40 South State without filter a day does to you. Live life as it was no tomorrow:)
I'm only on my my late teens and I know there's alot of people similar to my age that fear death and I was that kind of person. For weeks I have lost alot of sleep due to constant fear of death and it really affected on my studies. I remember waking up frantically screaming,shaking and Crying with fear of the thought about it . By this I've also was scared to going to sleep due to me having thoughts of death. I felt alone and by my self and I dint rlly wanna talk about just in case I also brought fear about death to other people. Until I started to do some research of how to cope with death and morality by doing this became understanding why I feared death. I've reach to a conclusion that I'm still young and haven't done much in my life this is my I feared death due to lack of accomplishment on my life,along side with just being afraid of not experiencing or existing. Another thing that help me reduce my fear of death is creating a bucket list and planning to do them. In addition to that I've also read some people's experience and how to deal with death anxiety. This then lead me to talk about it more openly to other people that I know and we sometimes we have a good heart to heart conversation. It'll be a lie if I said I'm no longer afraid of death, I still am but much less about it because it's not under my control it's beyond me. So by having increase advances of life expectancy it'll probably will come to the point that only you get to choose when to end it which for me is far more worst.
Read Quran and think about life
Oh my god this has been exactly me for more than a week and I'm 16 turning 17 thank you so much it just feels good to know that I'm not alone.
@Michelle Nguyen you're not alone read the most recent reply
I feel the same way but every time I go to sleep I try to think that since my body was made by such great power the same power that moves planets 🪐 and the same energy that grows the grass the trees then I think my heart beat functions with such a great energy too !!!🙌🏼🙌🏼
True but what value do your future accomplishments have if we turn to only dust after death and we won't be held responsible of our actions in this life? All people fear death in a way believe me. I see people die on my call every week and I have never seen a dying person pass away in their last moments not experiencing anxiety! This should start us to wonder why that is. One of the logical explanations is that we know instinctly that there is life after death and are not sure whether or not we worked properly to ensure that we take good places in it!
The worst thing is losing your memories; and being forgotten over time.
I must already be half dead - I keep forgetting things like there's no tomorrow... maybe there is no tomorrow! woah!
This may be one of the most important speeches I've ever heard in my life.
The idea of living forever makes me feel very tired.
Forever is forever of amazing tired is weakness leaving your mental state.
The idea of living until next Thursday - makes ME feel very tired.
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Hit the gym. :P
The idea of taking a break from life sometimes sounds really relieving. I believe there will be a possibility to live life that in the future, as many don't want to live continuously, and some want to be gone forever.
raynarks the idea of living past 20 makes me tired
Dying is not that bad. Aging is.
Dying slowly is the horror. Because it sneaks up on you as you continue to get acclimated to progressive lost capabilities. If I had been asked 10 years ago if I would be willing to continue living under the current circumstances I am experiencing, I would have scoffed and said “Of course not. I’ll off myself long before I reach such a state.” And yet here I am, still alive. One of my greatest fears is I’ll continue accepting the downhill slide until I’m bed-bound and incapable of terminating my existence.
pentti k--Absolutely. Aging sucks. It's a slow, slalom and somewhat painful run to the bedfast ward of the long-term nursing facility. Pehaps DEATH is God's/nature's way of saying, "Tired of all this? Well, here's your ticket out."
@@Mekratrig You so well express my sentiments. Thanks!
@@Mekratrig i'm sure lots of people agree with such view. Especially when one is in its prime and says oh i would never accept living that way in that condition... but when things goes downhill you see that life is the only thing which is tangible, and beyond is unknown, so let us stay here for little a bit longer. What's coming will come anyways so why to rush.
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This is so true. I find that when I try and discuss dying with my friends and family, the exception being my sister, people will always attempt to change the subject. Why is everyone so afraid, I would hate to think of living forever!
The reason death is so scary is because your brain can't wrap itself around you ceasing to exist. How can things happen without us seeing and perceiving them? Our subconscious asks. On the other hand, in Tuck Everlasting, the driving quote was: "death is not scary. What's scary is living forever." I haven't watched that movie since I was a very young child, but the quote has stuck with me
That's a logical fallacy. Living forever implies having infinite memory space in your brain/afterlife-soul, otherwise you would be able to remember an infinitely long life, and you're effectively just deleting and re-writing your memory. If you do assume infinite memory space, your complexity scales accordingly and you wouldn't necessarily "get bored" ever.
Going to sleep is a mini death every night - basically, you cease to exist for however long you are asleep
“This place is a dream . Only a sleeper considers it real . Then death comes like dawn , and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief “ . Rumi
even a fly
struggles not to die
fights for her freedom
she's glad to be alive
even as a fly
I just hope and pray that I won't be a burden to others. I've seen to many family Caregivers destroy their lives while taking care of loved ones that refuse to take responsibility for their final years.
So make sure you take responsibility and prepare for yours. My Mum tried to give all us kids money and I refused. I'm glad I did as she needed it for a care home - I visited every day until she passed, but there's no way I could have cared for her. Way past my abilities
Leaving your body permanently (physical death) might not be that bad. The BAD part is not knowing HOW you will die and how long you will be in pain and/or discomfort. Some people die in their sleep while for others it takes years of debilitating diseases including pain, discomfort, surgeries and loss of independence before they die. Huge difference!
Nice one! “It’s not how long I live that matters, it’s how I lived, and I intend to do it well”
Life is risky; You're not going to get out of it alive.
3 of my friends found a small crack in the Universe - escaped.
Literally.
GOT OUT ALIVE
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How did your 3 friends do this randy?
Once you realize you are an immortal being, experimenting a human life experience, everything becomes easier, and your life purpose comes into focus.
She has the speech of a Professor that we all need and deserve in University.
Thank you!!!! This means the world to me to hear what Lesley shared. I needed this today... on Easter Sunday of all days... Thank you!!!
These TED talks keep me sane while im dying!
What a wonderful lecture. We do not hear such truths often, as many people are so uncomfortable with the notion of death. I truly believe that if we were encouraged to talk about death from an early age, we would come to the realisations and understandings so beautifully expressed in this video. Thank you, Lesley Hazleton.
Death is the door to the truth .
We couldn't know if it is though. If we're forever unconscious after dying, how can we realize what happens to us.
@@karstdeviz3858 this is what terrifies me
a little too late tho
@@karstdeviz3858 I kind of can't imagine there just being nothing, something that exist can't graps the idea of not existing...but humans, like all living things are alive because of energy, right? Where does that energy go? Does it just disappear into thin air??
Wow. Her voice is so calming. I could listen to her for hours.
Ends are nothing but new beginnings, and I am not who I was yesterday. Who I was yesterday is now who I was ten years ago. If you can't find or make something to interest you in that vast expanse of experience, then you're doing something wrong.
Chronic depression is not an argument against a potential eternal life, but an argument that some people don't want to live.
The only thing I am afraid of is living a pointless life. The lady speaker is asking the right question. What's wrong with dying? I think a person's life is their own. And if someone wants to end theirs then that is their business.
that's one way to look at it... but it's not like life on earth is a repeat of the same things. you meet new people, you learn new things, you always have something else to achieve, someone else to help, some other person's life to pour into and nurture. if you're living for yourself it might get boring. but if you're living to inspire and better the lives of those around you, you may get tired but I doubt you'd actively wish for it to end. I don't think death is a bad thing but I also don't see life as entirely meaningless either.
what an enchanting voice.
I totally agree, people always make you feel like it's cursing to talk about death!!
Yosr Fetah you are still in young age....be save and happy
Look, if you want to die that's fine. If you think people who don't want to die are silly, that's fine too. But if you even hint at trying to force those beliefs onto others, there will be big problems.
Also, "One must imagine Sisyphus happy." -- Albert Camus
Albert Cloete how so? What problems? She is saying we all die, accept and live your life.
Toni Deveraux -
As long as technology continues to advance, death and disease will become rare and possibly 100% optional at some point. That's probably the mindset of the guy taking the supplements.
There will always be new challenges for those with the will to face them. But you can lay down and accept failure any time you choose.
Stupendous, one of the most healthy view points on the subject I have ever heard.
One of my favorite tedtalks
This soothes me of the death of my mom. Indeed the years she lived made my life different and us to remember her so long as we live.
The real cowards are those that are so afraid of death that they've accepted it, accepting death is another way of refusing to think about it. They refuse to see a different option to dying of old age because they're afraid of missing out. Rather than fighting death, they give up and stick to the safety of what used to be, while also dragging others into death so they're not alone.
If immortality within reach, humans will reach new frontiers beyond our current imagination. think of individuals being able to acquire hundred of years of experience and multidisciplinary knowledge. speaking of how tedious and boring immirtal life will be is an act of narrow minded people. the beauty, excitement and amusement in the ever changing scientific challenges are endless.
I agree with you.
And it's not just science. Art and culture as well as society in general will benefit. Not just the individual.
The arguments against living indefinitely are always narrow sighted and opponents of indefinite lifespans like to focus on people's fears - rich people, overpopulation, etc.
I've never understood why they even need an argument against living indefinitely. If you don't want to live beyond a certain age you are free to terminate your existence. No one is going to force this lady to live any longer than she wants to. In contrast her opposition to longer or indeed indefinite lives could hurt the people who do want to live longer.
Anonymous Man Yes, she is sending a wrong message about life extension enthusiasts with her "man on supplements example!" ignoring the real work on tolmeres, senescent cells, genetics and free radicals "just to name a few". it's a disgrace to find such video on TED it ought to be nothing but comic hogwash.
And it will never be worth it... Experience is just an illusion fated to be undone by understanding...
Can you understanding all of this infinite universe some day?
Even if humanity reached immortality on Earth the Universe is doomed to die itself so either way unless we find another universe or artificially save the sun from dying out we will also perish.
She just delivered an astonishing point about human existence. And i am astonished if all you can gather is her soothing voice
We rightfully crave for eternity rather than immortality. And we have it - if we just take the time to feel it. Like Spinoza said: "We feel that we are eternal."
The fear of death is nature but not rational. Death is nothing to me. Because when I am here death is not and when death is here I am gone.
But when you are here you can enjoy being here but when you are gone you can no long enjoy anything at all forever
No he is just re-quoting mark twain, if im not mistaken.
she is just awesome . May God bless her .
She does not believe in god.
@@Ka9radio_Mobile9 but God believe in her
I wouldn't want to live forever, but I would love to try more things that I normally wouldn't because I'm getting too old for them.
Dionyzos there are so many songs in me that won't be song...the time has come for me to pay for yesterday ...when I was young
I wouldn't want to live forever, but I would like to stay young and healthy for as long as I'd like, probably a couple of hundred years.
Do them!!!! No regrets.
i'm scared of death. i'm scared for when it comes to my family, i'm scared for when it comes to me. i'm scared of not being able to see any of them again. i'm scared of not being in the world anymore while it keeps going and changing
lot of people in the comments don't want to address the fact that death is certain.keep dreaming you guys
This just now lifted sadness of the loss of a favorite celebrity I didn't know I was carrying.
Love this lady. Bunch of scared cowards we are. Being afraid of death is akin to fearing the sun rising because my friends that shit is coming for us all. Take it like a man you whimpering simpletons
Being scared of death is completely normal, it's just as natural as the sun rising, or death itself . Fearing death is the strongest instinct in all animals, even people with severe alzheimer's disease fear death. To mold your mind so that you stop fearing death, that is just as unnatural as ending aging, or going into space, or sleeping in a bed, or using the Internet, or wearing clothes, etc.
For most of us life is mostly a hamsters wheel . . On and on and on with intermittent moments of happiness.
Is there truly something wrong with that? What is the best way to live in your opinion?
Nothing wrong with it, perfectly natural, bring it on!
you see death alone can make you a believer in God's existence let alone everything else in the world.
If you want to die it's not hard to obtain.
So why haven't you just grabbed for your desire?
Many have died before us. Historically speaking, it’s natural and everyone faces it. We repopulate, or not, and everything goes on until there is nothing left. Death is part of life, you can live forever until your not, your loved ones would be gone, or maybe the planet, universe, etc. Can it still be called being “alive” then..?
Excellent Me Lady!
I would like to watch your smile and speech ten times before I happily die!
Thank You
People kinda romanticize "the golden years", but the truth is, retirement is disease and frailty, boredom and bodily fluids. I can't do anything of what I want to do, if I'm old and frail. Its all too dangerous for a frail elderly body and brain.
Her voice is so so soothing! Epic speech!
Death may be terrifying for those who fail to recognize their God and I’m definitely not talking about Jesus.
As someone who is religious I do disagree, but I do understand where she's coming from. It does seem like life loses its intrinsic value if its only a precursor to another, however, as written in several scriptures, life is still a fleeting and mysterious thing and an afterlife does not take away from the preciousness of life in my eyes, but adds to it.
What is wrong with medicine/technology that would allow us to live as long or as briefly as we desire?
DUH?
The fact that the world will become overpopulated. We will die one way or another. We would run out of food if we all lived forever and kept repopulating. It’s a nice idea, but eternal life has so many flaws.
@@gibbygibson6680 not if we get so technologically advanced that we can upload our brain to an Android body.
Arab Spring soul it's belongs to God and no one Else...
Old comment but I had to respond. You are answering your own question.
It is NEVER one and the other. People do not get to choose euthanasia right now. What makes you think this would be different in a world where we live forever?
so we should try to collect all the happiness and love cause life is a journey!!! - its sounds amazing man
such a mesmerizing voice Heard her for the first time and already heard four of her speeches awesome oration and beautiful content !
What a brilliant, eloquent, and imaginative woman!
this is probably the most calming thing i have ever watched
If the advancements in technology would enable a healthy and potentially infinite life, it just means that when it ends is an individual choice.
But it would be pritty hard to choose death
muffinn reminds me to the movie "In Time"
Kevin D. Najera havent seen it
muffinn it's a cool movie to watch at least once, it's a about time being the new currency of the future, the rich living forever basically while the poor die in great numbers.
people would choose death only if they wanted to die at which point it would be the opposite of hard to make the choice.
Your comment is illogical.
Great speech! I’m working on accepting my mortality and this helps so much!
Her point is relative and different for everyone. For young children who are dying of cancer, they would view Lesley Hazleton's life as living almost forever. For people approaching 100 years of age, they would look at Lesley as a youngster. For people in third world countries, just as in ancient times, they are dying before age 30. As recent as the 1900's many people died around age 50. So to be able to live an average of today's 74 years back in olden days, would be viewed almost as a type of eternal life. I'm sure in the future, the average lifespan will increase to over 100, unless wars, disease, and natural disasters step in to cull the world populations down to a more reasonable size. We are at 7 Billion humans now. 50 years ago the world had less than 2 1/2 billion. The world can only accommodate so many until circumstances and nature reduce populations. Natural law.
I appreciate death. I’m scared of my own death, but I appreciate it.
Think of how selfish not dying is. The world will become overpopulated. And when it’s overpopulated, we run out of food. Which means people will die anyway. You cannot rid death, so enjoy life while you have it.
In the future there may be a solution to overpopulation. Technology is developing faster than ever before, and we will be able to do things we've never been able to do before. There may even be a possibility to allow everyone to live until they want to die, by adjusting the amount of kids of every individual and the time between having kids. I was born in 2001, and I am looking forward to the future.
@@freeunderratedmusic4273 I agree. We also could colonize other planets in the future. I was born in 1992 and i have some doubt that we will have the technology in time before my time is up but i do really believe one day in the future death can be completely avoided.
i mean if your only concern is overpopluation we probabaly can solve it. The most apparent answer is less children will be born. Just look the birth rate of the most advanced nations.
What an amazing talk! It’s not how long, but how well!
Interesting to see the watershed before us - those who choose rejuvenation, and those who reject it. What a schism this will be in society!
I wish I had her level of acceptance. I suffer from anxiety and after a dream involving the rather dramatic spectacle of death-by-nuke of myself and my family, followed by an odd waking moment from the dream where my eyes were still closed, i felt i was conscious, but in some black void, until I opened my eyes, and needless to say that experience fucked me up... I'm now terrified of dying and I feel like I have so little time left now and I'm only 33. My quality of life is turning to shit because of it. I just can't bring myself to accept it, or ignore it's inevitability. Hats off to this lady.
How u doin
@@nobodiesband I’m recovered from anxiety and doing great. Thankfully there’s a way to recover from it and not something you’re permanently stuck with
@Ash Schultz Art excellent to hear brother ☄️
I am not scared to die I am ready anytime to die I feel better if I left this world
Best talk of the entire conference!
Nothing more fearful than living through terrible times, or living so long that you think that daylight might burn alittle.
There are two kinds of people. One who live their lives for experiences, to enjoy stuff. People, who may be happy in their lives and who may make other people happy, but also people who haven't developed a real interest in life. The other kind of people have certain quest in their life that extends beyond living through life experiences. Eg., to learn about particle physics, or to learn how to improvise jazz music. Now, people of the first kind will easily get bored after the first 70 years. But people of the second kind could be there for hundreds of years and still be happy and eager to learn more. I think people like Einstein, Darwin or Charlie Parker could live for 700 years and they wouldn't be bored.
ALLAH says in Quran " He who created death and life" , Death is mentioned before Life to emphasize the importance of the latter ! Which is what the lecturer is trying to make us comprehend!
Don't you believe you'll live for eternity in heaven after death?
@@MaartenvanRossemLezingen you should ask ur self that answer
Spot on Lesley! Well done for the excellent lateral thinking and inquiring mind!
If you study life carefully enough, you'll realize the cyclical nature of things and events...everything that vibrates, especially if it's endowed with any semblance of awareness, operates within a breathing process. Breath itself, the heartbeat, waking/sleeping, day/night, work/play, pleasure/pain, life/death. *Life/death is a cycle* ... which means it will repeat itself, like any other cyclical dynamic.
Moreover, science now supports the continuum of the animus (soul). Sciences such as remote viewing, hypnotherapy, and to some reliably repeatable and therefore verifiable extent, psychism itself.
Everything..everything is wrong with dying. If nothing was wrong with it we would not try so hard to survive.
Bravo! So eloquently put. You are a marvel and legend.
Wonderful!! Thank you so much.
This lady is amazing, her voice is fabulous.
I love love this lady!!!
Great lecture. Brings everything into focus as life is finite. No question about that, and it is natural to die. We may not know when that will occur, and for that reason at least to me, I enjoy each day, the best that I can, knowing I may not see another sunrise or sunset, so that I stop and enjoy it !
thats the ONLY right answer , aging is a disease and we should stop it , so ppl can decide weither they want to spend more time with their loved ones or not .
I could listen to her for eternity
As one of the characters in my Hades and Persephone retelling told her immortal love interest, who was trying to rush her into living forever: "Forever is a long, long time."
She may not be religious but she's definitely along the lines of those spirituals. Why would life lose meaning by prolonging it? Saying that life can only appreciated by dying is just like saying happiness can only be achieved by suffering.
Also, getting bored because of 'immortality' is for people lacking imagination. You now have this wonderful universe to explore all of your life, what could possibly make you bored? You can't even watch all these RUclips vids even if you have 2000 yeafs of lifetime.
The worst part of dying is if you haven't prepared anything to face it, while our death can happen anytime
Can we take a moment to appreciate that starting quote?
Wise, clever and witty she seems always are!
Nothing is wrong with dying! (It started with sin.) And now, it's the only way to get out of here alive. It is a reminder,
"Ye must be born again."
wow thats deep. She said we NEED an ending. Great speech overall. yes HOW you live
You don't need to die, you just have to pause living for a while. And that time might be the intermezzo between death and birth. I hope this life's suffering leads to a huge sigh of relieve after dying. And then I'll be able to enjoy great things again, cause they are no longer boring.
Everything is wrong with dying, but Ms. Hazleton makes it seem like it's a big bag of fun for the whole family.
Helge Kautz if you losed someone you love I'm sorry for that
The problem is with life, not death. Life is the tragedy because it is too short. It took 17 billion years worth of physics, chemistry, biology, evolution and luck just to bring you into existence which may last only 70 to 85 years. Turtles can live for 150 years, and some trees for over a thousand years. But perhaps we should be grateful we live longer than cats or even gnats that can die in a day. Still, it seems to short as you see a larger pile of sand in the bottom of the hour glass than in the top.
Just GREAT as always :)
What a lovely lady, such calm wisdom
Well spoken lady, Those who doesn't understand her, let me elaborate. Death soon comes to everyone. Your legacy is not while you are living but after your dead. It's your book and how you want it written. It's too deep go further but your life does have a meaning. I can go farther but that's another whole subject.
Probably 99.9999% of all people are forgotten as if they never existed, probably because they were unremarkable. How well do you know your ancestors from 15,000 years ago?
If I cure all diseases or build a clean energy system, and then live another 50 years, does my achievement have no value until after I'm dead? People are enjoying the fruits of their own legacy right now.
As long as technology continues to advance, death will become rare and ideally eliminated (except as a conscious choice). Actively managing a living legacy sounds better to me than trusting it to some buffoon in the future.
Jim Fixx--an ardent health and exercise enthusiast--died in his early forties of a heart attack. Genetics can't be bribed or altered, at least so far. The health enthusiast in the opening of this vlog who is taking all those nutritional supplements apparently hasn't reckoned with genetics, let alone the vicissitudes of life such as plane crashes, car accidents, random drive-by shootings, street stabbings, or any other unplanned catastrophes that can--and will--end one's life. Life well and fully...because you're going to die anyway.
What a lovely lady with a fabulous voice.
So wonderful, omg I love you 💕😘 thank you
I think the car crash death would have been rather cool. When the alternative is dribbling into your incontinence pants hooked up to tubes in a nursing home I would definitely rather go out on a racetrack.
Some people always claim they’re not afraid of death, until you put a gun to their head.