#169b - Death: Shelly Kagan on the Living in the Face of Death, the Problem of Immortality, Suicide and the Value of Life, Loneliness, Overcoming and Confronting the Fear of Death

This is Part 2 of Shelly Kagan's course on YouTube/Yale Open Courseware. Part 1 is linked in the description, or you can just click here. You can support Professor Kagan by purchasing his book on Death. The original YouTube series can be found here.

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Music is Fauré Requiem, Op. 48, performed by ⁠Seiji Ozawa at the Hiroshima Peace Concert.⁠ Creative Commons.

Table of Contents

(00:00:00) Host Intro

(00:00:32) Nature of Death 1

(00:41:24) Nature of Death 2

(01:21:05) Dying Alone, Badness of Death 1

(02:06:26) The Badness of Death 2

(02:49:42) Badness of Death 3, Immortality 1

(03:36:28) Immortality 2, Value of Life 1

(04:22:58) Value of Life 2

(05:09:53) Aspects of Death

(05:56:34) The Fear of Death

(06:41:03) How to Live Given Death

(07:22:14) Suicide Part 1

(08:03:01) Suicide Part 2

(08:48:03) Suicide Part 3