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No One Here Gets Out Alive (The Death Episode)

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The Death-Poams of Human Sacrifice

For many cultures, plunging right into death was a welcome honor. Bryson: In an individualistic world, what could be more terrifying than an individual dying? For many of us, the ultimate discomfort is the knowledge that death is inevitably coming," he says. We spend billions and dollars on treatments that are no longer effective when we're close to our end; so consumeristic capitalism flees at all costs.

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