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Natalie Emmons

Post doctoral researcher, Boston University

Natalie Emmons is a postdoctoral researcher at the department of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University.

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Immortality instinct

We have this powerful sense that death is a transition, not an end. Why can’t we imagine a world without us?

Natalie Emmons