I know if I was on my death bed, I would want to see this. I think this video could be highly beneficial for older patients in hospitals. I've shown this to several doctors and nurses, and gotten great feedback so far. If you know anyone who works with the elderly or hopelessly ill patients, please share this with them. I'd love to hear their feedback. These ideas could fix some of the major issues in our current healthcare system. I also want to give a big thank you to those who support on Patreon! www.patreon.com/AfterSkool

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

Wisdom, philosophy - should be #1 priority in schools. That is if we lived in conscious societies. Unfortunately it goes against the ambitions of very few, those who rule. *A scared man is a controlled man.*

*Most people who become extremely sick or develop a disease tend to change their perspective on life. I think it takes a serious life event to make us think more about what life is all about.*

never stop sharing Alan watts wisdom please❤❤❤

My Grandpa and I had conversations like this a lot especially in the time he spent in the hospital before his death. He was a gem and I miss his wisdom. He would have loved this speech.

'We eat everything and give nothing back'. Dam that's so true.

I'm loving your Alan Watts videos, so much wisdom from someone who passed too young

Our limited time on this Earth is what makes every day valuable

I really can’t tell you the comfort this brings me. 😢

What a truly amazing and beautiful 10 minute speech. The current human condition is so strangely unnatural and depressing that I grew to become a miserable depressed adult with not a single clue as to what I was doing here. It is through the wisdom and teaching of those before me that have opened my eyes to the reality behind the curtains. Although I still suffer through life, in many ways I feel far more free than ever before.

“Die before you die” I love that quote Forsure will get that tattooed im pretty sure I already died so I feel as if I am living now

“We are beautiful because we are doomed” Achilles

I’ve worked in trauma care most of my life and have tried to preach this, but you truly meet with massive hostility from the institutions and family. I always tried to convey to the patient that death is the natural part of life as common as birth.

Alan Watts always makes so much sense 🙌

I've loved Alan Watts for over 20 years and he never gets old.... even repeating the same! Awesome!

There are people in hospitals who cannot talk, move their body, cannot eat or drink, etc. They can move their eyes and look around the room. Their families keep them alive thru hospital machines. The hospitals see these people as a source of money- to charge insurance companies and collect money from family estates. Ask yourself, would you want that to be you?

For years i have suffered on being anxious about my death to the point that i wasn't able to live properly, i never thought that such a tiny video would make such difference in my life, that would take away that burden that i was carring for such a long time, i'm really grateful for that, i can't thank you enough!

Alan Watts has given more to me than anyone I’ve ever actually met in my time and it’s so cool

Great video. I think this is why psychedelic/mystical experiences can be so profound. They remove your ego so you feel like you're dying, yet it's the most natural and familiar feeling ever.

I used to think I wanted to die in my sleep or something quick and painless. I'm starting to want to make sure I get to experience it wholly when it's time.

Probably the best thing iv ever watched... EVER

I suspect most people do not fear being dead, rather, they fear the process of dying alone, terrified and in pain.

This is the most powerful, beautiful and heart wrenching (in a third eye opener Sense) video I've ever seen. I love you, you beautiful soul.

I have no idea why this made me tear up the way it did, but I'm just in awe right now.

I don't think death will be going out of fashion anytime soon.

In the beginning, Allan Watts inadvertently and unscrupulously knocks out everything you believed or you thought you knew. Then when you wonder how is he going to tidy it up, he ends with a bang that silences your doubts in him. And then you realize he's a genius without setting out to become one!

First of all, I absolutely love your artwork and the way you enhance these excellent lectures. As to the subject matter here, I suppose I am one of the fortunate ones who has always accepted the fact that death is inevitable, and have had no fear of it going as far back as when I was a 6 year old and first experienced the death of someone very close to me. As I always tell people "I am not afraid to die, and if it were to happen tomorrow I'd be OK with it, but I am not doing anything to necessarily hasten the process because I also like my life." However, if I were ever to get some kind of terminal diagnosis I would take the quickest, most pain-free path to the end, because if I can't be active and feel good, there is no point in being alive. I have also had the end of life discussion with a parent and a grandparent, so the scenario he talks about around the 5:00 mark is something I've not had to deal with. While those deaths were sad, we in the family did have the "it's OK to go" discussion. I am surprised and dismayed when I hear that people can't or refuse to do that with a loved one who is near death. I've told my family I won't be waiting around to hear that from them, because I already know it's OK, but some people really need to hear that before they let go, and it's cruel to withhold that.

As an Oncology and Hospice nurse for decades I'll take being doped up during death. I've seen what people go through when they're not and it's agonizing and terrorizing for those whose families deny them narcotics.

We die 3 deaths 1: the heart stops and brain ceases to function 2: our name is said for the last time 3: the last person with memory of you dies

After Skool’s conceptual artistry is mind blowing! Alan Watts thus illustrated, adds clarity to his profound insights with symbolic visuals perfectly matched.

I never get tired of listening to Alan Watts

With my high level of income ,and the advances of modern technology. I could live for 200-300 years.- Ricky Bobby

Your videos changed my life❤️ and how I view the world 🌎 THANK YOU!

Namaste, I absolutely love Alan Watts, so much of his great teachings resonate so well. Great video for all humanity to fully comprehend. My Grandmother always said very lovingly that “That the old must die because this is the natural way of things” “The young could die and this is unnatural” “Appreciation for everything, everyday in every way is the best way to live”

This is literally therapy.

Curiosity is Life. Knowing all is Death. Wisdom emerges.

Life moves on long after the thrill of living is gone -JCMC

OMG, this is so true. As I was reading in the book of life and death, it is said to learn how to die before you die. Letting the ego go... Allan Watts was so far ahead of his time.

I’m mad the thing I can’t get out of my head is how that old man blinking scared the crap out of me. ❤️ the video!

"Life is about letting go." -Death

The best thing I have ever watched. Crying and loving at the same time

I owe this channel alot for introducing me to this man

I’m just having a bad trip but this helps

When the body and mind dies we become truly free.........no more ego interfering with the consciousness.

If you live to grow old and die of natural causes then you have experienced life but if death comes too soon and you die sudden, unexpectedly and it is a tragic death...then you suffered in your life and that death is not what you willfully accept as part of life. So you struggle to survive to stay alive.

After skool alone produces great videos. Videos of Alan Watts' lectures and Afterskool's elaborate visual representation should be the material of all skools!

And if you die but are brought back you have an entirely different outlook on existence

Timeless and beautiful man.

Now this was worth the watch👏

Reece d Watching this whilst being under the influence of Psilocybin, as peaceful as I'd want to go. Not frightened, but at peace. Knowing that we are going to die one day makes life have so much meaning. Tell people you love them. Tell them they matter. And listen when they tell you.

Some people don't get a deathbed, some people arn't lucky enough to be able to say goodbye to the ones you love. In Memory of my Little brother Thomas David Burket, December 1st 1995- August 25th , 2019. He was struck by a man who blew a Red Light and hit my Little brother was riding his bike. We have so many amazing memories, from growing up with Nintendo, and playing video games, to finally being able to drink a beer with eachother. He is my number 1, my partner in crime and will forever remain with me locked in all of the memories I have stored over the 23 beautiful years he gave my Family and I. Cherish those in your life, please, create amazing memories and protect eachother!

Death is an enemy which will eventually be thrown into the lake of fire.

Live a life without regret and say what you feel more....fail more...succeed more but above all love and allow yourself to be loved...

Wow. Your drawing transforms the message of Alan Watts to something more powerful. It sticks so much more, I feel a greater connection. Thank you, truly.

Live *healthy* forever > dying

Suddenly death doesnt seem so scary anymore

Tell that to the "Elite"

I watched this stoned to the gills and it rattled my perception of life...

I'm ok with the dead bit, it's the dying part, the crossing part that freaks me out. Because it's still part of life! The crossing is part of life, suffering is part of life!

See, now these are the deep, philosophical kind of videos I subbed to this channel for. Also, I really dig the painting at 7:09.

Honestly once you experience it you can't be scared of it.

None of us are getting out of this alive. 😱

I love Alan Watts. And I tell you now, that was the best speech he has done in my opinion. The most simple. Get lies all the answers in which we as humans for someone reason need answered even though we already know. In which we die, let that be as blessed as birth. Fro how grate it is to experience one giving another life to plant earth! One can be full of gratitude and say, well that was grate, now off to the next dimension. What a unexplainable beautifully luck experience I had there😌

Love this, thanks for letting your creativity shine!

I dunno about you all, but this year (2020) has me thinking about all of this very frequently.

Loved this video. Thank you very much! It brings me peace for loved ones lost. :)

Beautiful video, thank you, I enjoy how you put Eckart Tolle's quote at the end of the video, obviously do not shy away from more Alan Watts. Thank you for the great content.

Shrooms help me see that magic

Critical care nurse observation after 25yrs, so true.

Man that's what I am talking about, we need more people like that

After skool is seriously underated love the topics and the art is wonderful when you put these powerful speakers on thank you for your work

Alan Watts ❤️

Outstanding! I pray for 46 and 2 ahead of me

Still not fearing death while drunk and high in October 2020!!!! ALAN WATTS 4 LIFE!!!!! TILL I DIE!

This just pulled me out of a depressive episode. Thank you

It's great that someone has the power to put into words the echo of my soul 🙏 thank you Alan Watts.

Very beautiful words and drawings!

I had a dream i died and the best thing was the feeling it left me with which was I wish i hadn't taken life so seriously

I miss my late mum.

I needed that today

This is beautiful

I am currently interviewing at medical school hoping to become an oncologist one day. I listen to this Alan Watts lecture about 5 years ago, and it has influenced my perspective immensely. This is a superb rendition and visualization of this lecture.

This is so profound and beautiful

This is amazing and brings me such peace. Pleaseeeee do a video on csf and sacred secretion

There's this great misconception in the world.... That death is important and that there could never be enough space for everyone without death. A: space is big, the world is big, if we took proper care of it and lived green lives, billions of more people could live here. Not to mention the infinite amount of space in space B: the fruit flys average lifespan is 28 days.... And damn, could you imagine living longer than 28 days as a fruit fly? Why would you? There'd be no joy in life anymore? Nothing left to do? No beauty? That fruit fly has experienced everything it'll ever feel in just 28 days? No, there is no reason for death. The world is beautiful, irrespective of how long you've lived or how you've died, rainbows and stars and sunsets will always be beautiful

Coming to the conclusion that I will never understand it or how it all works is one of the most oddly satisfying and freeing feelings ever.

I'd like this to be played at my funeral.

I am comfortable with knowing that I will face death. I am comfortable with death and I understand it’s necessity. First, the world would not survive if everyone who ever lived was immortal. We would suffer much more through famine, drought, climate change, violence, hate, and more if we were eternally in our bodies. What I believe to be true, is that we are the very Universe experiencing life in a direct way. I believe that since everything that we are and everything that we do was formulated in the Universe, that we are all miniature forms of our entire Universe testing what it has made. This is why there is a common saying that when I see you, I see myself. Because deep down we are all the same. We all come from the same thing. All we are is the Universe because if we did not come from the Universe then where did we come from. I feel that most people do not feel this way because it’s almost impossible to expand the mind to think in a way that is in such a large scale, in that we are the Universe, instead of we are the manifestation of our parent’s reproductive agents. Thus, I am confident that the Universe is looking out for me, and when it is my time to go, the Universe is finished experiencing life from my perspective. This is true with everything, from plants, inanimate objects, animals, and humans alike. We are each a unique perspective of the Universe, and that is why I place my trust in the Universe, because if the very existence of the Universe proves to me that it cares enough to offer different perspectives of it, such as human consciousness, to photosynthesis, to the laws of physics. The Universe is so great, in fact, that it allows us to ponder on what it is and where it came from. Thus, I believe that as we come to an understanding as to what the Universe is and what our purpose in life is, is to give the Universe a perspective of how each and every person experiences life. To say that one is not ready to die is to suggest that one’s selfish desires as a human, not as a grand, expanding Universe is irrational and immoral. We must accept death for what it is- the end of our Universe’s trillions of perspectives, and this is why Socrates claimed that the only thing that he knows is that he knows nothing. Because life and existence is experienced in an incalculable amount of ways, and to suggest that ones knows a lot is an irrational statement. This perspective allows me to live my life in peace, knowing that we all live and experience life according to the Universe, and that we are all merely a conscious, rational entity that the Universe has created in order to experience itself. So I have gratitude for the Universe, I thank it for the gift it bestowed upon me to experience itself through the lens of my senses. Therefore, we must not fear death, as what we have gifted is simply the ability to take in what the Universe is, and thus take in what we ourselves are and have created. When my time comes, I will not be regretful, for I know too well that what happened to me is exactly what the Universe wished to experience as a human- and thus I can be content with that, for I simply do not know why. But what I do know is that we are not isolated. The Universe is with us every step of the way. And whatever we experience is what the Universe wishes to experience, which is the most humbling thought I can conceive. May we all experience a blessed life, a life of pain and pleasure, a life of drive and motivation, a life of leisure and ambition. But most essential and important, a life of peace and love. Because if everything around us is the Universe as are we, then why hate? For if we hate things manifested by the Universe, we reflect that hate onto ourselves.

disagree with his supposition. You do not loose the wonder of the natural world smply because you become older. In the right envionment it only grows with age.

I am not scared of death. What I am scared of is dying. The process, I mean. With agonizing gasps and all. Dying with physical pain, unless I am lucky enough to die in my sleep. And what if chronic illness leads me to death? The pain of suffering the illness for years + the last agonizing gasps of death... it is these things that worry me. No amount of philosophy can make you escape this grim (and highly possible) reality. I have seen a person in my family dying after living for years in constant physical pain. The pain tolerance of humans is very weak, I tell you. It takes just one toothache to drive all positive philosophies out of your mind. You then rush for a painkiller, pop it, get relief after about an hour, and then relapse into your life-is-beautiful-and-worth-living philosophy again.

Hey I love you all, and wish all the best in life. Guess we all watched this video for different reasons. Glad we all share the same ideas on this topic.

thanks! i really enjoy a content like this!

I remember Neil Degrasse Tyson said that our mortality is what drives us to progress. Without adversity, there is no change. Without finite time, there is no reason to fill it with accomplishment.

There is nothing wrong with wanting to live for ever who ever can find the way to discover eternal life go ahead and do it

This video has something so magical beautiful about it that I can not explain. The wave of emotions that come over me and make me alright with dying

Wow that line about devouring everything and not returning to the earth to be devoured is really telling of human nature

I think thats one of my favourite alan Watts speeches. So proufound, so real; so true ♥♡

Never heard words describe my feelings as my mother passed away in hospital doped up so much she couldn't speak listening to all the hope chit chat shit spouted whilst knowing she knew she wasn't going home. I wasn't angry or upset in the end i cried my heart out when I walked away and sat in the car with a cigarette not for my loss but happiness for her relief. I've lost my dad friends loved ones but nothing hits you like your mother's death nothing. She knew I knew but as alan says you start telling lies, I wish I hadn't. Love to anyone going through the same right now. I promise it get easier over time you cannot go over or around it you just go through it and after time you realise you got through and you smile ❤

This must be something I had to hear because this talk is actually bringing me to tears.