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Thinking more about death, I often come to this question: How has knowledge about death changed behavior of human beings? It seems to be a crucial question insofar as realization of your mortality delivers a lot of meaning to everything you do. If you can imagine that you are dying on next Sunday and there is no possibility to escape, you’ll, probably, change your behavior completely, and at the rest of your short life you will live more consciously. However, the same might happen if you figure out that death waits for you at next month, year, decade, a hundred years. Roughly speaking there is no big difference to know you’ll die in next year or next X years. When you fully grasp that you are dying, an amount of time will not make much sense. Death is a significantly important subject to learn. The more you know about your death, the more aware you are. These lectures I’ve been listening to the last days have so much value and provoke me to think more deeply. I’m certainly going to listen to them more than one time. I suppose at the next summer my English will be good enough to understand even more than Shelly Kagan is talking about.
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