Andrew Huberman· PhD
The group that is the most anxious about death are the people who don't know because they're like, "Oh, wait, is there an afterlife? And if there is, did I do what I need to get into that afterlife?"
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The group that is the most anxious about death are the people who don't know because they're like, "Oh, wait, is there an afterlife? And if there is, did I do what I need to get into that afterlife?"
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People who firmly reject any form of afterlife, they're a little more anxious than the believers, but they're less anxious than one other group, right?
So what we know, right, is that um if you look at uh anxiety around death, it's it's kind of a um an upside down U. Right? So people who really believe in an afterlife, they have the least anxiety about death because they feel like I'm going someplace good.