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Green, Hank. “Perspectives on Death: Crash Course Philosophy #17.” //Youtube//. PBS Digital Studios, 13 June 2016. Web. 14 June 2016. In the video, the narrator goes over multiple peoples’ different philosophies about death and how they handle it. He gives brief examples and different quotes from philosophers about how they perceive death and what happens after we die. It’s great to have an example on how people feel about death that probably haven’t experienced death themselves, but in the video most of the philosophers after years of thinking about these kinds of things, all came to pretty much the same conclusion: there is nothing to fear. They thought that if there was something to fear it was being alone or leaving things behind. Even when put against execution, the video explains how Socrates himself remained calm before he was to be put to death. This video is a less morbid piece of research that can help answer the question without having to go in depth about someone experiencing something bad but rather people who simply convinced themselves that dying cannot be all that bad and even when death was among them or others they were able to remain calm. Josh F