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Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.08,0:00:16.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I know most people \Nare terrified of death,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.71,0:00:18.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I’m terrified of cocktail parties.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.46,0:00:21.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.38,0:00:24.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not much good\Nat the usual social chatter,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.97,0:00:27.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so if you put a couple\Nof drinks inside me,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.17,0:00:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's no knowing \Nwhat I might come out with.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.56,0:00:31.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.75,0:00:34.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like what happened at one such event,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.12,0:00:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,halfway into a second martini.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.92,0:00:39.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got into a conversation
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.42,0:00:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with an ardent fan \Nof the "end to aging" movement -
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.51,0:00:47.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you know, the vision\Nof a radically enhanced life span
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.44,0:00:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big with Silicon Valley billionaires\Nwho think they should never die.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.92,0:00:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of them was actually\Nboasting at the time
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.02,0:00:59.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that he was taking\N150 nutritional supplements a day
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.48,0:01:01.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to ward off death -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.60,0:01:05.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an activity that must have consumed\Nthe better part of an hour,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.57,0:01:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let alone the lining of a stomach.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.12,0:01:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.46,0:01:11.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The guy I was talking with
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.71,0:01:14.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,didn't seem to think\Nthere was anything weird about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.84,0:01:17.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was about half my age -
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.84,0:01:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less than half, in fact.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.94,0:01:24.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And since death was clearly more of\Nan imminent reality for me than for him,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.57,0:01:29.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he made the mistake of assuming\Nthat I'd be living in mortal fear of it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.23,0:01:32.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He seemed quite shocked that I wasn't.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.03,0:01:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, he seemed to take my\Nequanimity of the prospect
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.68,0:01:39.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as an admission of some kind \Nof failure on my part.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.60,0:01:44.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“How can you accept limits\Nthat don't have to be there?" he said.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.17,0:01:46.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Biotechnology could mean an end to aging;
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.77,0:01:50.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it could even mean\Nan end to death itself."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.66,0:01:53.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that’s when it came out.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.96,0:01:57.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.81,0:02:02.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But what's wrong with dying?" I said.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.24,0:02:06.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The question startled him into silence,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.49,0:02:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the truth is it startled me too.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.83,0:02:12.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd never thought to ask\Nthis specific question before.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.84,0:02:14.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I never put it quite so bluntly,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.67,0:02:16.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but now that it was out there -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.45,0:02:19.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hovering in the alcoholic \Nfumes between us -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.36,0:02:22.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.04,0:02:25.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it seemed to cut \Nto the heart of the matter
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.92,0:02:30.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it's taken for granted \Nthat we're all afraid of death.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.46,0:02:33.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ask people if they are -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.70,0:02:35.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have asked,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.11,0:02:37.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though not usually at parties -
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.47,0:02:40.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and most would say, "Yes, of course!"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.80,0:02:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and look like they'd rather be\Nanywhere but in the same room as you.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.76,0:02:47.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was psychologist William James,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.97,0:02:50.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who called death "the evil background,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.77,0:02:55.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and "the worm at the core \Nof human aspirations to happiness."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.45,0:02:58.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or with poet Philip Larkin,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.07,0:03:00.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who was very good \Nat worms at the core of things
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.28,0:03:03.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wrote of lying awake in terror
Dialogue: 0,0:03:03.29,0:03:06.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of what he called\Nthe "total emptiness forever."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.62,0:03:12.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it turns out, I’m as bad \Nat things taken for granted
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.14,0:03:14.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I am at cocktail parties.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.06,0:03:18.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When something seems so obvious\Nit's beyond question,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.41,0:03:21.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's when I tend to start questioning;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.21,0:03:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because what we take for granted
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.44,0:03:29.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may really be what we haven't taken\Nthe time to think through.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.87,0:03:32.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I guess you could say
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.16,0:03:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I haven't had much option but to think\Nthrough the matter of my own death
Dialogue: 0,0:03:35.87,0:03:38.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since I've come pretty close to it\Na number of times.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.13,0:03:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Middle-East, I was shot at\Non a journalistic assignment,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.58,0:03:44.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bombed as a civilian,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.23,0:03:46.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,threatened by right-wing thugs.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:47.35,0:03:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the closest I've come\Nwas entirely my own doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.38,0:03:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lost control of a car
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.42,0:03:58.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on turn three of a race track\Nin the American Midwest,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.56,0:04:01.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and with what seemed immense slowness
Dialogue: 0,0:04:01.20,0:04:03.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rolled over,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.42,0:04:07.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and over, and - yes - over again.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.34,0:04:12.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And as I rolled, a single sentence\Nreverberated in my mind,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.61,0:04:15.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like some kind of mantra.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.70,0:04:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"This", I kept thinking,\N"is a really stupid way to die."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.42,0:04:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.62,0:04:30.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My first reaction
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.62,0:04:33.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the car came to a stop\Nand I found myself still alive
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.47,0:04:34.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was amazement,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.88,0:04:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,followed by a surge of gratitude
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.53,0:04:39.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to whoever it was \Nwho invented the crash helmet.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.79,0:04:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.90,0:04:43.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it only occurred to me later to ask,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.07,0:04:47.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What exactly would have been\Nso stupid about dying this way?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.76,0:04:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, what might I consider\Nan intelligent way to die?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.08,0:04:52.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:53.53,0:04:56.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why was I even asking\Nsuch a question in the first place?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:56.98,0:05:01.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To which my only answer was:\Nintellectual vanity.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.07,0:05:07.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, surely I was\Nfar too intelligent to die stupidly.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.68,0:05:10.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.34,0:05:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems that not only is my life\Nimmensely significant to me,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.11,0:05:19.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but so too is my death -
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.74,0:05:21.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even though if I was dead,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.42,0:05:25.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wouldn’t be around to appreciate\Nthe significance of that fact.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.58,0:05:28.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, I wouldn't be around\Nto appreciate anything at all,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.01,0:05:31.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which makes it a good thing\NI'm not religious;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:32.49,0:05:35.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because then, apparently,\NI would be around
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.62,0:05:39.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in something called "the afterlife."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:40.18,0:05:44.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is, to put it mildly,\Na sobering thought to live with;
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.88,0:05:48.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since the idea is not only \Nthat you never really die,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.32,0:05:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but that what you do in this life
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.85,0:05:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,determines your fate\Nin a hypothetical next one.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.78,0:05:58.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In other words,\Nthe life you're actually living
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.74,0:06:02.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has no intrinsic value in and of itself;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:02.78,0:06:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or actually, not in other words
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.72,0:06:08.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the words of motivational\Nmega-pastor Rick Warren,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:08.64,0:06:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he of The Purpose Driven Life:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.01,0:06:13.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Earth," he says -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.44,0:06:16.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm not making this up -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.09,0:06:24.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Earth is the staging area, the preschool,\Nthe tryout for your life in eternity."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.43,0:06:30.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Life as a practice session?
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.70,0:06:33.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, that's one way \Nto utterly trivialize it.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.85,0:06:35.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And here’s another;
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.15,0:06:39.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because what’s on offer from\Nthe Silicon Valley apostles of immortality
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.68,0:06:43.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really comes down to a secular \Nversion of the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.44,0:06:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even if for them you stay in your body
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.57,0:06:49.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of evaporating\Ninto some kind of disembodied state.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:50.03,0:06:54.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, we have \NPaypal co-founder Peter Thiel
Dialogue: 0,0:06:54.48,0:06:58.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,saying - and I quote -
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.00,0:07:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If people think they're going to die,\Nit's demotivating."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.76,0:07:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.35,0:07:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's more!
Dialogue: 0,0:07:08.11,0:07:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.69,0:07:15.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The idea of immortality," \Nhe says, "is motivational."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.78,0:07:22.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As one of those people absurd enough\Nto imagine she's going to die,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.93,0:07:26.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I find Thiel's glibness astonishing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.81,0:07:31.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He reduces human existence\Nto the language of corporate management,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.30,0:07:34.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to motivational path.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.42,0:07:39.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He seems to think our lives are\Ninvalidated by the fact that we'll die,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.84,0:07:44.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he assumes that life\Nis a matter of what else but metrics;
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.81,0:07:48.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its value determined by something\Nas easy to calculate as years.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.80,0:07:53.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In Thiel's world,\Nwhat gets us up in the morning
Dialogue: 0,0:07:53.93,0:07:56.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not the enjoyment of the life\Nwe're actually living,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:56.53,0:08:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the hope that we'll go on\Ngetting up in the morning forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.59,0:08:07.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I for one can think of\Nfew things more depressing.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.66,0:08:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:13.36,0:08:15.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.03,0:08:19.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thiel's dream is my nightmare.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.77,0:08:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.14,0:08:22.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And if you think about it a moment,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.82,0:08:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it might turn out to be yours too.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.57,0:08:28.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's leave aside \Npractical considerations,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.71,0:08:31.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like who can possibly \Nafford to live forever.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.66,0:08:34.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I guess that might be\Nless of a consideration
Dialogue: 0,0:08:34.14,0:08:36.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you are a billionaire,\Nbut only slightly less,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.69,0:08:38.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because any number of billions of dollars\N
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.69,0:08:42.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is still barely a drop\Nin the financial ocean of eternity.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:43.22,0:08:47.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, I'd ask you to think\Nwhat it might mean to live forever,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:47.02,0:08:51.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it would be like\Nto just keep on going,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.00,0:08:54.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like that pink toy rabbit\Nin the old commercial for batteries,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.63,0:08:57.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,banging away on its tin drum.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.27,0:08:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.86,0:09:02.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in fact, we do have some idea\Nof what it would be like.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.42,0:09:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's there in the way we talk.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.10,0:09:08.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we say we sat through a lecture
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.20,0:09:11.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that just went on and on\Nlike it would never end,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.41,0:09:15.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or we complain of incessant chatter,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.24,0:09:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or describe a bad movie as interminable.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.91,0:09:24.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Consciously or not,\Nwe realize that without an end,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.31,0:09:27.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life would become a flat,\Nfeatureless expanse:
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.69,0:09:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just one thing after another,\Nliterally ad infinitum.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.11,0:09:36.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Endlessness would suck \Nthe vitality out of existence,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:36.56,0:09:38.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eviscerate it of meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.79,0:09:41.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It would leave us with that sense\Nof tedium and pointlessness
Dialogue: 0,0:09:41.69,0:09:44.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's the hallmark of chronic depression.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.90,0:09:50.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the last thing I'd ever want\Nis to never die.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:51.79,0:09:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have zero desire to live forever,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.16,0:09:58.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because immortality is not\Nsomething devoutly to be wished for,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.16,0:10:01.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the contrary: it's a curse.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.29,0:10:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Think of Greek myth,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.12,0:10:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where Sisyphus is forever\Nrolling his boulder uphill,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.23,0:10:08.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never to reach the top.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.39,0:10:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or of ghost and vampire stories,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.73,0:10:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the walking dead are condemned\Nto spectral half lives without end.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.06,0:10:20.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or even of a comic book \Nhero like Superman,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.10,0:10:23.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,destined never to have\Na regular Clark Kent life;
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.30,0:10:29.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never to live, love and die\Nlike a normal human being.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.97,0:10:31.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We need endings
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.22,0:10:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the most\Nbasic ending of all is built into us:
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.88,0:10:37.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our ability to die,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.93,0:10:39.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our mortality,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.51,0:10:43.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a defining part\Nof what it is to be human.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:43.14,0:10:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are finite beings within infinity,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.98,0:10:49.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if we are alive to this,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.15,0:10:52.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it sharpens our appreciation\Nof the fact that we exist,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:52.79,0:10:55.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gives new depth to the idea\Nof life as a journey.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.26,0:11:02.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, my mortality does not negate meaning,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.69,0:11:04.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it creates meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:04.81,0:11:06.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's what wakes me up to life.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.84,0:11:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's what says,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:07.90,0:11:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Appreciate it!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.30,0:11:10.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't take it for granted!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.15,0:11:12.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Write the next book!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.09,0:11:14.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Laugh with your friends!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:14.76,0:11:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Go explore!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.73,0:11:18.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eat another dozen oysters!"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:18.81,0:11:20.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:20.61,0:11:23.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because it's not how long\NI live that matters;
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.76,0:11:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's how I live,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.58,0:11:28.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I intend to do it well -
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.67,0:11:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the end.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.89,0:11:33.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you!
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.76,0:11:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)