Precis 1: “The 4 Stories We Tell Ourselves About Death” In the Ted Talk video, “The 4 Stories We Tell Ourselves About Death” (July 2013), philosopher Stephen Cave covers why humans fear death and when we first realized that we were going to die. He supports his ideas by describing it as a curse that we developed by being so clever. Cave describes the knowledge of mortality as being the biggest bias ever and he proves this by giving examples of experiments that were done involving this idea. He then goes on to describe the four different categories in which the stories are found in many different cultures. They are the elixir of life, resurrection, to live as a soul, and legacy. After this he goes on to try to give the audience some sense
