Digging into vaccines and the possibility of an afterlife

Are vaccines a life-saving technology contributing to an unintended consequence of innovations that ultimately make us more anxious about death? (Spoiler: Probably.)

Are we headed to an afterlife or a void after we die? (Spoiler: Stop being so binary.)

If there is an afterlife and it turns out our bio-less selves can travel freely through spacetime, I am definitely checking out some dinosaurs and doing belly flops into black holes. (Minus the belly because I wouldn’t have a body, but you get my drift.)

Ideas, et cetera, mentioned in this episode—part of my End Points series, a mix of end-of-life topics intersecting with culture, science, and more—include:

• Agnosticism/atheism and religion
• Anti-vaxxers, public health, and vaccination/variolation
• Black holes, dark energy/dark matter, and string theory
  
• Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic, flu season, and smallpox eradication
  
• Death anxiety and mortality awareness

And, as usual, I share my daily mortality mantras with you. I say both to myself every morning, usually during the ice cold shower I take shortly after getting out of bed to help wake my groggy ass up and start the day off right. I hope they help you as much as they help me.

Sources: here (scroll down once you're there)

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