Where death is, I am no longer, where I am death is not. If life and death are mutually exclusive, then we have no reason to fear death; but could it have a role to play in life? As part of the student-voted Best of Bristol lecture series, Prof Havi Carel explored the question of whether we should fear our own deaths through contrasting the views of Epicurus and Heidegger.
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