Die Well Death Education: Session 10: Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality In-Person
Session Ten: Film: Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality
Narrated by Gabriel Byrne, this seven-time Best Documentary award winning film is the most comprehensive and mind-blowing investigation of humankind’s relationship with death ever captured on film. Flight from Death uncovers death anxiety as a possible root cause of many of our behaviors on a psychological, spiritual, and cultural level. Following the work of the late cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Denial of Death, this documentary explores the ongoing research of a group of social psychologists that may forever change the way we look at ourselves and the world. Over the last twenty-five years, this team of researchers has conducted over 300 laboratory studies, which substantiate Becker’s claim that death anxiety is a primary motivator of human behavior, specifically aggression and violence. (86 minutes)
*Individually wrapped, homemade skull cakelets will be provided.
You do not need to have attended prior classes to attend this one, or any, of the Death Education series, but please register below due to space limitations. You will need to register for each date separately.
- Date:
- Monday, August 25, 2025 Show more dates
- Time:
- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Daytime Die Well Death Education Lectures
