23. How to live given the certainty of death

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Professor Shelly Kagan: At the end of last class, I quoted some words from Kurt Vonnegut, a kind of deathbed prayer confession that he'd written in one of his novels in which the basic gist of the prayer is to express gratitude. Whatever the content of your life, the fact that at least you've been able to live at all--As he put it, most mud isn't l... Read More