“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”-Mark Twain
Armendicus Mark Twain wasn't talking about the big bang theory. He is talking about the fact that he did not exist before he was born. Hence he was "dead" for billions of years.
+Jeremy Downey It is not so much the objective conditions, but to a the stress generated by a society that measures people`s worth by how much money they have. Also the stress of feeling at a relative disadvantage compared to the rich. Give and African the objective living standard of an American just above the poverty line and he`ll live to be 100, while all the other villagers die a little sooner.
Nebojsa Galic There are many, many factors involved. I'm aware of a good deal of them. It is very hard to know which factors are most important and how they interact, since it is so hard to isolate factors when there are so many in studies.
+Zuthal Soraniz this is what makes me furious when people say income inequality isn't an important issue because it's literally a matter of life and death
Wait, why would you bury people in a metal casket? That seems both horribly expensive, horribly pointless and horribly bad for the environment and such.
Embalming and casket burials are bad for the environment, but they're more or less a tradition that everyone expects. Embalming is actually unnecessary in many cases, refrigeration will preserve a body until a funeral and burial, but it was popularized during the (American) Civil War, when refrigeration relied on huge blocks of ice.
Marconius We (in the Netherlands that is) never embalm as far as I know, and the body doesn't decompose so quickly. I've never been to a funeral where the body was actually visibly decomposing. Sure, they looked dead. But they were, so... Besides the body is kept cold, so it doesn't decompose very quickly. This wasn't as easy 100 years ago as it is now.
***** It only makes a difference because you believe that it does. If you believed that people should pay their respects (I still have no idea what it means) to your tooth-brush, then your tooth-brush would make a difference!
Yeah, sure. I bet they'll hack you up into tiny pieces in their science lab and have your innards in display for young kids to see. Spared no expense. LMAO!
my Mama just passed, and I am a young teen. Death is such a reality. Especially since my dad is having to pay the funeral expenses, and the debt of two weeks in ICU, the affect that death has on the economy has become very real to me.
I really like this episode because economics counts every body even after death. It is wise to accept and get prepared for death that nobody could escape. Yup most of the families worry about funeral expenses than grieving . Well said 👍
+Greg Moberg Oh my God. It's true. It can save 6000 $, and in the end will produce good outcomes for those who are still alive. It's a win win solution!
This is very interesting. I wish my college had this as an elective in economics. I'd like to quantify the average cost of life expectancies and the process of death and then reflect on recent and current policies for the elderly to understand the macroeconomic impact on society's philosophy, education, health care system, etc.
Social Security only pays that $255 to the SPOUSE of the person who died. I know that because I thought I would get that to help pay for my mom's cremation and found out otherwise! Those commercials that mention the death benefit are misinformed as apparently is this episode of Crash Course.
After taxes you should do a video similar to this on the total average cost of birth (you can use the u.s. as an example) and the systems around it. A friend gave birth a year ago and when we broke down the costs for each part (registration, hospital bills, mother's care, etc.) holy cow... It was an eye opener no one ever really discusses because like death, its wrapped up in an emotional and moral connection. Just a thought and suggestion.
The first ep without AD DC guy and you talk about death and tease about taxes... that's rough but keep up, it will eventually turn around to be a fun show again. Live long and prosper.
As im watching this, im reflecting upon the fact that i study Psychology and im about to finish my 4 years in two months, and well i think ive made a good career choice. (:
I don't understand how funeral insurance works.. Versus health insurance you pay for and never use.. EVERY single client is going to need to make a claim. Are there loopholes that means they don't have to payout?!
+B Bloomfield it depends on when you died to get cheap ones you have to get in young then you pay a monthly amount that has been calculated to give them a winning if you died at average life expectancy. if you died sooner you win. ;-)
"He's not dead, he's in Canada" The value of a life is reflected in pricing, in health/life insurance, legal settlements and financial instruments like Annuities. Of course, political considerations must also be factored in - the more people that die at once and the more coverage they receive invariably increase that value (e.g. plane crashes vs. automobile fatalities).
+J.D. Benavidez No doubt. She's mean. A few years ago, she changed her Facebook status from "Married" to "Widowed", and dared me to make her dreams come true.
Once, I had said to my friends: "Let 'Suicide is painless' be playin' on the day of my funeral." Now I say: "Nope, nope, nope. No funerals, no nothing. Throw my carcass into a furnace and be done with it."
My grandfather took care of everything. Place of burial and tombstone was already paid for. I used the money he left us to finance flights of far away relatives who wanted to come to the funeral, and the engraving of the tombstone. I also paid some hotel and food bills for myself and some relatives while we worked for about a week on emptying his room at the old age home. Altogether I spent about 5,300 USD of his money on things around that, and the rest was divided among his inheritors according to the legal and clear last will he left us. Turns out there's a lot of bureaucracy involved, even when everything is taken care of... dont even want to think what kind of bureacratic circus I would find myself in if he hadn't dealt with everything in advance.
I don't want to be turned into a carbon dioxide after I die. I'd rather be a food for worms and go away from this planet than let my children pay for my disappearance. It's already enough
Geekminer A table or tree is part of the planet. But that doesn't make them be caretakers of my close people. But that's acceptable since those are just objects. I just wish I died fully and you are right, I'll be gone. But that's okay too
+Geekminer Well... The way a dead body is disposed of does have an impact on the environment. So many people think it does matter. Especially since in the US embalming is a thing. You think it's a good idea to put lots and lots of dangerous and potentialy carcenogenic chemicals in the ground? (and think of the person who has to handle those chemicals)
A while back I was talking to one of the owners/caretakers (I'm not sure which) of a cemetery, and they told me that they frequently get phone calls from creditors that have been re-directed there as the debtors "current address"
As for the question of debts this would generally be the case for pretty much all commercial debt since they are simple contracts and thus cannot be binding on non-parties. To be liable under a contract the person would need to have been party to that contract such as in the case of joint accounts or acting as a guarantor. Things get more complex with secured debts since the creditor then has a legitimate actionable claim on the encumbered asset which can be leveraged against any holders of a beneficiary interest in the asset to secure payment at lest where the value of the beneficiary interest is at least equal to the outstanding liability ie where the loan isn't underwater it would be in the beneficiaries interest to negotiate a settlement with the lender in order to retain the asset or at least the surplus value.of their larger interest in the property.
try telling a “progressive” that rich people have higher life expectancy and at the time that social security was started working class folk weren't even expected to live to 65 and they'll just deny deny deny.
I wonder if I can make a will that exhaustively distributes my assets to people I care about and have the part related to funeral be : Donate every bit of the body that is still useful for other people, like blood and organs and feed whatever's left to the nearest pig farm or something, then call the whole family for a party to cheer yourselves up and get over it. For the love of god don't freaking waste like 15 thousand dollars disposing of a dead sack of worthless meat. Not that I consider myself worthless, but I find immensely stupid that we waste such much time and energy taking care of a dead body. The person is gone. Sure get the folks together to mourn the dead and pay respects, BUT DON'T WASTE MONEY ON IT!!! Best way to make me happy would be to use that 15 000$ on something helpful for the people still alive, like a wedding! Weddings are worth spending money on. Raising a child is worth spending money on. Funerals should be cheap as dirt.
+LiwenDiamond well, you may try to write a will like this, but i don't think this point of view would be popular enough to make all funerals "cheap as dirt" :/
+LiwenDiamond My Aunt signed up, & had her body donated to science. When she passed. They came & got her, cremated & returned her ashes to us when they were done. She has a free plot with her husband already, so I don't know if they would pay for anything like that. Also...we're still in the process, but she was sent to us by my moms request, which will cost us some $ to finish the rest, but I believe the science place would have sent her ashes directly to the cemetery. You could always be a tree, or a record, et...go research...lots of different options now days!
Well played crash course schedule your tax episode after the tax deadline so we can't benefit from it till next year! Don think you can slip one by me. Just kidding I filed an extension I'll get so much benefit mwahahahaha.
3:50 you're comparing documented deaths here. This might be a misleading statistic because in 1968 documentation from these deaths might have been under-reported.
That old couple clinking glasses of red wine! It's the most repeated image in all of Crash Course! .... Well, except the Mongols.
+radagastwiz I was about to comment the exact same thing but found it here instead lol
+radagastwiz it appears everytime they say "life expectancy"
*ques mongaltage*
+radagastwiz wait for it...
+radagastwiz I like that there are a lot of versions of that couple dinning in different places. I bet it's an inside joke in the studio.
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions
and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the
slightest inconvenience from it.”-Mark Twain
Mark Twain wasn't an atheist and that quote looks so fake as hell.
+Hong Khuu do a little research friend, i'm sure if it truly is fake, you could bring research to back up your point.
Hong Khuu
What does atheism have to do with anything?
+Miranox people think that mentioning the big bang theory makes some one athiests. My cousin didn't even know that some scientists were Christians.
Armendicus
Mark Twain wasn't talking about the big bang theory. He is talking about the fact that he did not exist before he was born. Hence he was "dead" for billions of years.
I can't even afford to die...
+Lady Catfish capitalism strikes again
+josh mcgee don't worry, socizlism takes care of that easy.
+josh mcgee don't worry, socizlism takes care of that easy.
Spontaneous combustion
History cares
Sure Jacob isn't "dead".
He has just gone to "Canada".
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE.
aren't they pretty much the same thing
You can just dispose my body in the landfill, when I am dead.
Or donate it for science…
I want my body thrown into a volcano...
+Colton Byrd tight. Like Kazuma from Tekken
+Colton Byrd yeah but you've got to find a guy to take you to a volcano
Kol
What I learned: I need to get into the funeral business
Yeah,especially if there's less competition
😂 😂 😂 a a true igbo man.
+sammy farouk you understand!
thanks to denial, im immortal
lol
+Connor O'Brien I really hope god remembered to untick the "aging" box in the options menu.
Maybe we could talk to god in simlish and put up a immortality thought bubble.
That's why we must download on consciousness in a computer before we become nonexistent. Better do something quick rather than believing in Candyland.
+Hong Khuu freeze yourself...
"A recent study found that income levels affect life expectancy... a lot." Well, duh. Especially in a country without universal healthcare.
+Zuthal Soraniz Five years is obvious. 13 years is scary.
+Jeremy Downey It is not so much the objective conditions, but to a the stress generated by a society that measures people`s worth by how much money they have. Also the stress of feeling at a relative disadvantage compared to the rich. Give and African the objective living standard of an American just above the poverty line and he`ll live to be 100, while all the other villagers die a little sooner.
Nebojsa Galic There are many, many factors involved. I'm aware of a good deal of them. It is very hard to know which factors are most important and how they interact, since it is so hard to isolate factors when there are so many in studies.
+Zuthal Soraniz this is what makes me furious when people say income inequality isn't an important issue because it's literally a matter of life and death
hey, drinking game idea, everytime you see the old people drinking wine while watching crash course you have to drink.
Tim Holmes *clip of Jim Lahey falling down stairs*
I refuse to die
too bad.
Ryan Bandi No
too bad. face your fear
Honestly I've already told my mother to donate my body to science. The cost of dying is an absolute disgrace
RIP in peace, Mr. Clifford. You will be missed.
+LunarX Rest in peace in peace?
+Maor Freeman Rest in pieces in peace.
Wait, why would you bury people in a metal casket? That seems both horribly expensive, horribly pointless and horribly bad for the environment and such.
+Marconius Yeah, or embalming. I know from ask a mortician it's a thing in the US, but it just seems bad from every perspective.
Embalming and casket burials are bad for the environment, but they're more or less a tradition that everyone expects.
Embalming is actually unnecessary in many cases, refrigeration will preserve a body until a funeral and burial, but it was popularized during the (American) Civil War, when refrigeration relied on huge blocks of ice.
+Marconius yeah that's what I thought.
Anneke Oosterink Embalming I understand, because you don't want the body to look all weird and rotten for the funeral.
Marconius We (in the Netherlands that is) never embalm as far as I know, and the body doesn't decompose so quickly. I've never been to a funeral where the body was actually visibly decomposing. Sure, they looked dead. But they were, so... Besides the body is kept cold, so it doesn't decompose very quickly. This wasn't as easy 100 years ago as it is now.
*The economics of death* sounds like a great album title tho
"let me point out that my cohost jacob isn't dead, he's---" *an error has occurred*
thanks for the unintentional humour, youtube
those funeral homes have you no matter which way you go.. and people are dying to get in there.....
Punny
but what happens when you donate your body to science research?
+Pedro Pablo Good question.
+Arthur Vieira but somehow no answer lel
+Pedro Pablo you really come apart....
+Greg Miller wouldn't be much use if you couldn't.
i was thinking about the same thing when i first saw the video..lol
IN other words: donate to science. It's progressive and it saves you 15k.
Ikr
***** I have the feeling that you and I conceptualize death very differently...
+Nick Vega They can pay their respects (whatever that even means) to a picture of you.
Makes very little difference
*****
It only makes a difference because you believe that it does.
If you believed that people should pay their respects (I still have no idea what it means) to your tooth-brush, then your tooth-brush would make a difference!
Yeah, sure. I bet they'll hack you up into tiny pieces in their science lab and have your innards in display for young kids to see. Spared no expense. LMAO!
my Mama just passed, and I am a young teen. Death is such a reality. Especially since my dad is having to pay the funeral expenses, and the debt of two weeks in ICU, the affect that death has on the economy has become very real to me.
10:33 this family hated grandpa.
+michael benzur yeah i was thinking about it
alot
The person who does not realize their death is coming cannot live.
I really like this episode because economics counts every body even after death. It is wise to accept and get prepared for death that nobody could escape. Yup most of the families worry about funeral expenses than grieving . Well said 👍
The laser lady shooting the declines was my favorite
donating your body to science will save a lot on end of life costs
+Greg Moberg Oh my God.
It's true. It can save 6000 $, and in the end will produce good outcomes for those who are still alive.
It's a win win solution!
This may sound insensitive, but this seems the perfect video to say: *Spared no expense.*
dying is expensive, do not die
Great presenter - look forward to seeing more from Adriene!
Wait, what is our demographic? Would be interesting to see that
Definitely would be interesting.
Death can't kill me if I kill myself first.
RUclips channels like this is why I love the internet.
"Dying is really really expensive, even after you're dead"
Oh well, in that case I'll just die before I'm dead!
I litterally cannot aford to die.
This is very interesting. I wish my college had this as an elective in economics. I'd like to quantify the average cost of life expectancies and the process of death and then reflect on recent and current policies for the elderly to understand the macroeconomic impact on society's philosophy, education, health care system, etc.
10:34- That family looks suspiciously happy to see those dead people.
"side effect of dying"
I see what you did there, CC writers.
how can you be sure i'll die? i mean, it's really really really probable, but still
because of fucking entrophy.
entropy sorry
Social Security only pays that $255 to the SPOUSE of the person who died. I know that because I thought I would get that to help pay for my mom's cremation and found out otherwise! Those commercials that mention the death benefit are misinformed as apparently is this episode of Crash Course.
So the lesson to be learned is: if you are really cheap, then do not die
After taxes you should do a video similar to this on the total average cost of birth (you can use the u.s. as an example) and the systems around it.
A friend gave birth a year ago and when we broke down the costs for each part (registration, hospital bills, mother's care, etc.) holy cow... It was an eye opener no one ever really discusses because like death, its wrapped up in an emotional and moral connection.
Just a thought and suggestion.
The first ep without AD DC guy and you talk about death and tease about taxes... that's rough but keep up, it will eventually turn around to be a fun show again.
Live long and prosper.
"When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash."
-Frank Reynolds
I love how this video is Death and the next one is Taxes.
Moral of the story: Give your body to science. Save the hassle.
As im watching this, im reflecting upon the fact that i study Psychology and im about to finish my 4 years in two months, and well i think ive made a good career choice.
(:
I wonder how many times CrashCourse videos use that footage of the two old people toasting wine glasses. I feel like I've seen it a lot of times.
Cardboard caskets. Cheaper, environmentally friendly (eg. high recycled content, low emissions for cremation), can personalise cheaply, does the job.
Wood Chipper Rental .... $100 Homeless Dude to toss you in ... $50
Fertilizing next year's crop ........
Priceless
1:08 that skeleton making it rain tho...😂
6:45 - One reason I am going to donate my body to science.
I don't understand how funeral insurance works.. Versus health insurance you pay for and never use.. EVERY single client is going to need to make a claim. Are there loopholes that means they don't have to payout?!
+B Bloomfield it depends on when you died to get cheap ones you have to get in young then you pay a monthly amount that has been calculated to give them a winning if you died at average life expectancy. if you died sooner you win. ;-)
I plan on being cryogenically frozen.
Me too
This episode was a BUMMER
I like how they have a framed picture of Clifford in the back.
+Enjey Batsukh He's with us in spirit.
Where is John Green? I need him
according to Panama papers taxes are avoidable so i am not too sure about death anymore.
How do you know about the Cuban papers?
To hell with this industry. I'm going to die in nature and let the birds pick my bones.
Tibetan sky burial?
Anyone see that picture frame of Mr. Clifford in the back?
I clicked on this mainly because I remember taking a death education class not too long ago and this was one of the topics covered.
+Ganaram Inukshuk where do they give death education classes?????
+Enzo Hoernig It was technically a philosophy class.
oooooh, I see now.
thanks for the info
(Y)
"He's not dead, he's in Canada"
The value of a life is reflected in pricing, in health/life insurance, legal settlements and financial instruments like Annuities. Of course, political considerations must also be factored in - the more people that die at once and the more coverage they receive invariably increase that value (e.g. plane crashes vs. automobile fatalities).
I'm 18 and gonna write my will after I finish this video...
I'll have to work till Im a hundred just to have a chance of financing my own funeral!
Thank you for this Adrian Hill
Hi,
As per your playlist, shouldn't this be video #29? Just helping to keep organized.
Thanks for your efforts. It's great. We love them.
I'm old, and I'm married to a nagging, yapping old woman. A visit from the grim reaper doesn't seem so depressing.
I'm with you!
+Robert Wise I leave cookies and milk on my nightstand for him every night. No luck yet....obviously.
+watcherjohnny Sounds like she certainly wouldn't mind you dying.
+J.D. Benavidez No doubt. She's mean. A few years ago, she changed her Facebook status from "Married" to "Widowed", and dared me to make her dreams come true.
Wow lol
Once, I had said to my friends: "Let 'Suicide is painless' be playin' on the day of my funeral."
Now I say: "Nope, nope, nope. No funerals, no nothing. Throw my carcass into a furnace and be done with it."
+LCwavesAtYa Or donate it to science.
Geekminer The morgue is still going to charge me (or my next-of-kins) for handling my carcass. Otherwise I'd jump on the board already.
Extremely depressing episode, I'm not gonna lie..
love these crash courses.
"Always look on the briiiight side of life!" -Life of Brian
"$255 is not even enough to get embalmed" - I dunno, you can buy a lot of booze for $255...
Where is Mr. Clifford???? Is he coming back? I love Adriene too, but it is a tag team course
Crash Course inspired business plan: Home remains composting kits!!!
No casket, no funeral. Just throw me in the ground.
thanks for sharing info on the 'unmentionable' topic
Dear Adrienne, could you make an episode about Economics of Marriage and Child Care?
My grandfather took care of everything. Place of burial and tombstone was already paid for. I used the money he left us to finance flights of far away relatives who wanted to come to the funeral, and the engraving of the tombstone. I also paid some hotel and food bills for myself and some relatives while we worked for about a week on emptying his room at the old age home. Altogether I spent about 5,300 USD of his money on things around that, and the rest was divided among his inheritors according to the legal and clear last will he left us. Turns out there's a lot of bureaucracy involved, even when everything is taken care of... dont even want to think what kind of bureacratic circus I would find myself in if he hadn't dealt with everything in advance.
7:35
what the hell..
i just want to be buried in peace.
I don't want to be turned into a carbon dioxide after I die. I'd rather be a food for worms and go away from this planet than let my children pay for my disappearance. It's already enough
Geekminer A table or tree is part of the planet. But that doesn't make them be caretakers of my close people. But that's acceptable since those are just objects. I just wish I died fully and you are right, I'll be gone. But that's okay too
+Geekminer Well... The way a dead body is disposed of does have an impact on the environment. So many people think it does matter. Especially since in the US embalming is a thing. You think it's a good idea to put lots and lots of dangerous and potentialy carcenogenic chemicals in the ground? (and think of the person who has to handle those chemicals)
I'll probably die from being sarcastic at the wrong time...
As far as I know, I'm immortal, because I haven't died yet.
Please may you do a video on quantitative easing please
A while back I was talking to one of the owners/caretakers (I'm not sure which) of a cemetery, and they told me that they frequently get phone calls from creditors that have been re-directed there as the debtors "current address"
Potassium
Calcium.
Deez Nutz
+Vande Trump is the true zodiac killer.
+Elite Hawk Trump is love. Trump is life.
jk.
Kazikstan number one producer of potassium.
But you CAN avoid taxes !
One word : Panama
+scarfacemperor that's only for rich people. they get all the cool stuff.
Replacing Karl Marx’s bust with Jacob’s portrait is everything.
Those two old people really fucking love their wine.
Life expectancy where I live is 85
+Mario Mario Considering the highest is 84 in Japan, I'll say you're full of shit.
As for the question of debts this would generally be the case for pretty much all commercial debt since they are simple contracts and thus cannot be binding on non-parties. To be liable under a contract the person would need to have been party to that contract such as in the case of joint accounts or acting as a guarantor. Things get more complex with secured debts since the creditor then has a legitimate actionable claim on the encumbered asset which can be leveraged against any holders of a beneficiary interest in the asset to secure payment at lest where the value of the beneficiary interest is at least equal to the outstanding liability ie where the loan isn't underwater it would be in the beneficiaries interest to negotiate a settlement with the lender in order to retain the asset or at least the surplus value.of their larger interest in the property.
Seraphina S
...And in English that means???
"a recent study found that income levels affect life expectancy" HOLY SHIT SHERLOCK, no one had ever tought or see that...
try telling a “progressive” that rich people have higher life expectancy and at the time that social security was started working class folk weren't even expected to live to 65 and they'll just deny deny deny.
Did you guys delete episode 29? It's not in your playlist and I don't remember watching it?
Death never happens acoriding the plans. Maybe take shovel with me for that extra long one way hike.
I wonder if I can make a will that exhaustively distributes my assets to people I care about and have the part related to funeral be : Donate every bit of the body that is still useful for other people, like blood and organs and feed whatever's left to the nearest pig farm or something, then call the whole family for a party to cheer yourselves up and get over it. For the love of god don't freaking waste like 15 thousand dollars disposing of a dead sack of worthless meat.
Not that I consider myself worthless, but I find immensely stupid that we waste such much time and energy taking care of a dead body. The person is gone. Sure get the folks together to mourn the dead and pay respects, BUT DON'T WASTE MONEY ON IT!!! Best way to make me happy would be to use that 15 000$ on something helpful for the people still alive, like a wedding! Weddings are worth spending money on. Raising a child is worth spending money on. Funerals should be cheap as dirt.
+LiwenDiamond I like the way you think.
+LiwenDiamond well, you may try to write a will like this, but i don't think this point of view would be popular enough to make all funerals "cheap as dirt" :/
+LiwenDiamond My Aunt signed up, & had her body donated to science. When she passed. They came & got her, cremated & returned her ashes to us when they were done. She has a free plot with her husband already, so I don't know if they would pay for anything like that. Also...we're still in the process, but she was sent to us by my moms request, which will cost us some $ to finish the rest, but I believe the science place would have sent her ashes directly to the cemetery. You could always be a tree, or a record, et...go research...lots of different options now days!
DO you have any crash course video for economics involved in Automotive Accidental Deaths. ????
Well played crash course schedule your tax episode after the tax deadline so we can't benefit from it till next year! Don think you can slip one by me. Just kidding I filed an extension I'll get so much benefit mwahahahaha.
3:50 you're comparing documented deaths here. This might be a misleading statistic because in 1968 documentation from these deaths might have been under-reported.
Hooray for Death! The one thing that nobody wants, but everyone works towards.
Nice work. Thanks for broaching the subject.
Death is just an extension of life.
This weird moment when Eskimo tradition of floating the elderly on piece of ice all of sudden making sense.
....... that's never happened.
Embalming is a waste of money, :P
When you sense the end, go take one last swim in the ocean.
You did great Adrian 😊