Scared to Death

For centuries, organized religion has used the fear of death and the afterlife — hell’s torment and paradise’s promise — as tools of control. In Jewish tradition, as interpreted by religious authorities in Israel, these ideas continue to shape public belief. Secular Jewish thought offers an alternative: it frees the individual from divine threats and reclaims life as a rare moment in which matter becomes self-aware. Like a fingerprint or a personality, each life is unique — and worth living fully. Death, in this view, is a return to nothingness. A nothingness without pain, without evil — and thus, nothing to fear. Source: “Death in the Light of Secular Belief” by Yaakov Malkin
 Voice: Yehoshua Sobol / Sound: Ben Iluz | Music: Jeff Beck Mentored by: Amit Trainin, Rotem Biksenspaner