Is Existential Fear of Death a Durable Human Trait?

Jeffrey Toobin: I'd like to think you're right that the like existential fear of death is a durable human trait. He asks if maybe that might come to an end with this era of disenchantment and science. And maybe that's some part of the legacy of rapidly changing times we're in, he says.Toobin: If people aren't afraid of death two or three generations from now, does that undercuts your idea that religion will somehow still be durable?

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