Ari Wallach

But I went through a version of the death meditation, as you've alluded to, when I was 18 years old. Cause I literally am the one who picked up the phone from the hospital at two in the morning. I was home from college and I picked it up. I didn't even, I didn't even say hello. I picked up the phone. I said, this is his son. Cause who else was calling at two in the morning?

But I went through a version of the death meditation, as you've alluded to, when I was 18 years old. Cause I literally am the one who picked up the phone from the hospital at two in the morning. I was home from college and I picked it up. I didn't even, I didn't even say hello. I picked up the phone. I said, this is his son. Cause who else was calling at two in the morning?

But I went through a version of the death meditation, as you've alluded to, when I was 18 years old. Cause I literally am the one who picked up the phone from the hospital at two in the morning. I was home from college and I picked it up. I didn't even, I didn't even say hello. I picked up the phone. I said, this is his son. Cause who else was calling at two in the morning?

And it was a charge nurse. And she goes, I want to bring you up to speed. He has really stage of cancer. Your father's not responding. We've been doing CPR. There are no orders on what to do. What do you want us to do? So I made that call because it was obvious of where it was going. That was my way of confronting the salience of his mortality and my own mortality very, very abruptly.

And it was a charge nurse. And she goes, I want to bring you up to speed. He has really stage of cancer. Your father's not responding. We've been doing CPR. There are no orders on what to do. What do you want us to do? So I made that call because it was obvious of where it was going. That was my way of confronting the salience of his mortality and my own mortality very, very abruptly.

And it was a charge nurse. And she goes, I want to bring you up to speed. He has really stage of cancer. Your father's not responding. We've been doing CPR. There are no orders on what to do. What do you want us to do? So I made that call because it was obvious of where it was going. That was my way of confronting the salience of his mortality and my own mortality very, very abruptly.

Other people have their own early brushes with death. I would argue that there is a certain level, and you touched on this, of emancipation when you've come close. You don't want to wish it on anyone.

Other people have their own early brushes with death. I would argue that there is a certain level, and you touched on this, of emancipation when you've come close. You don't want to wish it on anyone.

Other people have their own early brushes with death. I would argue that there is a certain level, and you touched on this, of emancipation when you've come close. You don't want to wish it on anyone.

But when you have come close to seeing what that looks and feels like, you all of a sudden become free from the burdens that society places on you in the Ernest Beckerian way of trying to push back mortality because you no longer give a shit. Because you now know where it's all going to go and you've seen it. As a society in the West, in America, we do the exact opposite of that.

But when you have come close to seeing what that looks and feels like, you all of a sudden become free from the burdens that society places on you in the Ernest Beckerian way of trying to push back mortality because you no longer give a shit. Because you now know where it's all going to go and you've seen it. As a society in the West, in America, we do the exact opposite of that.

But when you have come close to seeing what that looks and feels like, you all of a sudden become free from the burdens that society places on you in the Ernest Beckerian way of trying to push back mortality because you no longer give a shit. Because you now know where it's all going to go and you've seen it. As a society in the West, in America, we do the exact opposite of that.

We inject things into our body, into everything we can to push it back because we want more quantity, but we don't think about the quality of the life that we want. Now, that being said, you go to Japan. 90% of the companies that are over a thousand years old on planet Earth right now are in Japan. So part of it is our culture.

We inject things into our body, into everything we can to push it back because we want more quantity, but we don't think about the quality of the life that we want. Now, that being said, you go to Japan. 90% of the companies that are over a thousand years old on planet Earth right now are in Japan. So part of it is our culture.

We inject things into our body, into everything we can to push it back because we want more quantity, but we don't think about the quality of the life that we want. Now, that being said, you go to Japan. 90% of the companies that are over a thousand years old on planet Earth right now are in Japan. So part of it is our culture.

Part of it is different cultures of how they think and respect elders and death. And they understand that we don't need to exist within this own lifespan bias, but we're actually part of a chain, a great chain of being those who came before us. the pros and cons of that, the baggage of that. And then it's my role to decide what I want to keep and what I want to let go.

Part of it is different cultures of how they think and respect elders and death. And they understand that we don't need to exist within this own lifespan bias, but we're actually part of a chain, a great chain of being those who came before us. the pros and cons of that, the baggage of that. And then it's my role to decide what I want to keep and what I want to let go.

Part of it is different cultures of how they think and respect elders and death. And they understand that we don't need to exist within this own lifespan bias, but we're actually part of a chain, a great chain of being those who came before us. the pros and cons of that, the baggage of that. And then it's my role to decide what I want to keep and what I want to let go.

And then what I want to transmit to the next generation. That larger...

And then what I want to transmit to the next generation. That larger...