Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life Season 1 Episode 2 - Life After Death

Airdate: 2012-Oct-22

Episode summary:

Why do humans crave an afterlife – and how do we face death if there really is no God? In the second in his thought-provoking series, Richard Dawkins explores what science, instead of religion, can tell us about death. His journey takes us from a funeral pyre in India to cutting-edge laboratories in New York, where he has his entire genome sequenced to find out how he himself may die.

About Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life series:

Ideas about the soul and the afterlife, of sin and God’s purpose have shaped human thinking for thousands of years. Religious rituals remain ...Show more >