Memento Mori

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." —Vladimir Nabokov

Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction: Mortality salience
2:59 The dilemma of the human condition
6:11 Terror management theory
8:35 The root cause of evil?
11:14 Conclusion: Born to die

References:
- William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
- Ernest Becker: The Denial of Death
- Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski: The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life

Image: Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin