![]() You can follow us on Twitter and listen for Hidden Brain stories on your local public radio station. Hidden Brain is hosted by Shankar Vedantam and produced by Jennifer Schmidt, Rhaina Cohen, Parth Shah, Laura Kwerel and Thomas Lu. Praise for The Problem with Forever: 'Were left breathless and a little haunted and wanting more.'-Danielle Paige, New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die 'Heartbreakingly real.a remarkable novel about the power of first love and the courage it takes to face your fears. This week: the problem of death, and the paths to escape it. ![]() Each one presents a clever plan to cheat mortality, but raises new, unsolvable dilemmas. Cave says that all of these immortality stories can be boiled down to just four narratives, repeated over and over again in different forms. Fortunately, we have come up with solutions: stories that assure us that death is not what it seems – that there are ways to live forever. Philosopher Stephen Cave calls this the "mortality paradox," and he says it's a problem we have wrestled with for thousands of years. has been added to your Cart Buy used: 11.90 Get Fast, Free Shippingwith Amazon Prime FREE deliveryTuesday, March 21if you spend 25 on items shipped by Amazon Or fastest delivery Friday, March 17. ![]() Even in death we are somehow still there, off to the side, watching. ![]() ![]() "And whenever we attempt to do so, we can perceive that we are, in fact, still present as spectators." Humans have always struggled with this puzzle: we know that one day we will die, but imagining that reality feels unthinkable. "It is indeed impossible to imagine our own death," wrote Sigmund Freud in 1915. ![]()
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