# #74 - The Fear of Death | Tom Cochrane

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Podcast: [The Ethical Frontier](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ethical-frontier-6723630)
Published: 2025-09-01T12:21:21+00:00
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## Resource

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophy Tom Cochrane is a British-Australian philosopher working at Flinders University in Adelaide. Website: https://sites.google.com/view/tomcochranephilosophy/ Summary:In this interview, we discuss how we can address the fear of death. Cochrane argues that our fear of death comes from our will to live; hence, one way to address the fear is to change this underlying motivation. He argues that we can encourage a natural tendency for the will to live to decline as we approach death. We also talk a bit about religion and its role in addressing this fear.

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