Your Fear Of Death Explained - Alan Watts #didyouknow #alanwatts

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]And it's an extremely crude and limited conception of oneself.

[00:00:06]Of the actual unique living organism.

[00:00:13]And we get unhappy.

[00:00:17]Because we are thinking of ourselves in this way, because we think, well, gee, I'm going to die.

[00:00:26]I once talked to a woman who came to me and said she was afraid of death.

[00:00:32]And we went into it in a long conversation.

[00:00:35]I said, "What are you really afraid of?"

[00:00:40]And she thought it over and thought it over, and she said, "You know, what I'm going to be afraid of is what other people are going to say.

[00:00:48]They're going to say, 'Poor old Gert, she couldn't last it through.'"

[00:00:53]Because, you see, >> [laughter] >> who you think you are is entirely dependent on who people have told you you are.