Death Rides a Skateboard

I never would have assumed this.

A Brain is a Terrible Thing to Waste.

I could watch this woman talk for hours.
Amazing story, amazing neuroanatomist.

and a beautifully eloquent lesson in anatomy.

Is there no way out of the mind?

None of us seems a psychologically able to cope with the thought of our own state of death, with the idea of a permanent unconsciousness in which there is neither void nor vacuum -- in which there is simply nothing.
                                                                -Sherwin B. Nuland, excerpt from 'How We Die'

I could get into a whole metaphysical thing here, but I'm not going to

O, Death...

When you put it this way, it doesn't seem so bad.