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The Skeptics Guide #939 - Jul 8 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Existential Dread of Death

Steve Greene: Fear of death is so existentially terrifying to many people that we develop these, like, psychological coping mechanisms. He says one of them is this, well, it's not really going to happen to me. Greene: It's a very common, like, denial mechanism that people have to help some death of the day. But isn't that part, isn't that addiction part of the, that's the problem though?

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