Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (2003)

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Credited cast:
	Gabriel Byrne	...	Narrator
	Sam Keen	...	Himself - Author and philosopher
	Ron Leifer	...	Himself - Psychiatrist
	Robert Jay Lifton	...	Himself
	Merlyn Mowrey	...	Herself - Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Central Michigan University
	Sheldon Solomon	...	Himself - Professor of Psychology, Skidmore College
	Perrin Sprecace	...	Original Narration (voice)
	Irvin D. Yalom	...	Himself - Existential Psychotherapist

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Narrated by Gabriel Byrne (Usual Suspects, Vanity Fair, Miller's Crossing), this seven-time Best Documentary award-winning film (Silver Lake Film Festival, Beverly Hills Film Festival) is the most comprehensive and mind-blowing investigation of humankind's relationship with death ever captured on film. Hailed by many viewers as a "life-transformational film," Flight from Death uncovers death anxiety as a possible root cause of many of our behaviors on a psychological, spiritual, and cultural level. Following the work of the late cultural anthropologist, Ernest Becker, and his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Denial of Death, this documentary explores the ongoing research of a group of social psychologists that may forever change the way we look at ourselves and the world. Over the last twenty-five years, this team of researchers has conducted over 300 laboratory studies, which substantiate Becker's claim that death anxiety is a primary motivator of human behavior... Written by Anonymous  

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