I sat in the emergency room while my wife was dying and... I thought about Spielberg

Want to restore the planet’s ecosystems and see your impact in monthly videos? The first 150 people to join Planet Wild will get the first month paid for by me at https://planetwild.com/r/likestoriesofold/join or use later the code STORIES10. If you want to get to know them better first, watch their video on how they’re reintroducing the iconic wildlife in American prairies https://planetwild.com/r/likestoriesofold/m19 About this video: A reflection on death, cinema, and that time when I almost lost everything. 0:00 Prologue: the day she got sick 1:10 Spielberg, Tolkien, and Stories about Death 4:40 The Denial of Death 8:47 How the Fear of Death is Born 11:12 An Impossible Creature 14:24 Our Decaying Bodies 16:35 A Dream About Being a Person 20:16 When the Delusion of Meaning Breaks 24:53 Rust Cohle Was Wrong 28:37 Living Inside a Contradiction 33:04 Finding New Heroisms Sources: Ernest Becker - The Denial of Death: https://amzn.to/4e6Wpcv Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg & Tom Pyszczynski - The Worm at the Core: https://amzn.to/3C4wi8O Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LikeStoriesofOld Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tom.vd.linden Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/tomvanderlinden.bsky.social Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld Leave a One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden Business inquiries: [email protected] Say hi: [email protected] Music: A. Taylor - Wistful Jude Cosmo - Astral Pulse Jude Cosmo - Last Day on Earth Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: https://fm.pxf.io/c/3532571/1347628/16252