I've watched several of your videos in the 'Ask a Mortician' YouTube series, and it seems I have the same question as many of my peers above -- What made you interested in the dead and being a mortician? What is the highlight or best perk of your job? How do you find the Tibetan death custom ethical, compared to Western death rituals?
This may sound kind of morbid, but are you excited to die? (most people are scared or aren't as interested as you are...)
I thought it was really interesting how you mentioned everyone experiences grief in different ways. What is the strangest way you've seen someone grieve or mourn a loss?

I think this video was great to watch especially with our next big step in life. Within the next year we will be making huge choices that will impact our lives forever. When Mr. Fry spoke about work at 3:05 it really made me think about my choices for the future. He said "work is more fun than fun-- and that if you can say that then you are in the right place." I believe in this statement as well and think that one should wake up every morning excited and happy to go to work. He speaks about working long nights just to get a pay check and then turning around and spending it on 'fun' because he wasn't fulfilled at work. How does one measure fun and come to a conclusion that work is more fun than fun? Do you have to be wise before you understand what is 'fun' and what isn't?
Going along with the same theme of making decisions, I thought that 25:53 about belonging and standing alone was interesting. He said that people often have a tension between the desire to be unique and the desire to belong. Some times we want to be the leader and be innovative when other times we want to be included in a connected community with fellowship. Fry states that we want to "be a part of the tribe AND a part from the tribe." Now they sound very similar but are extremely different; is it possible to feel both ways at the same time? In what ways do we wish to stand out and in at the same point in time?

THE MISCONCEPTION- Some coincidences are so miraculous, they must have meaning.
THE TRUTH- Coincidences are a routine part of life, even the seemingly miraculously ones. Any meaning applied to them comes from your mind.

Okay guys so here's what I have so far (just some notes for the PLAN PHASE):
-Video:
-explaining the topic: Apophenia
-examples of us thinking we are special when we're really not
-have Tobin animate the examples and then be crushed by the truth
-meaning comes from within and this should be our main topic- we all think personal special events are meaningful and great for a reason
-we should include a rant at the end, for people who agree or disagree with Apophenia. I will advocate for the people who disagree with the truth and could never live with David McRaney. we could link our video so that people can see my rant about appreciating the little things in life and optimism.

So this idea just came to me!! I think we should continue with the animation theme and make an apophenia fairy who crushes the special-ness out of everything. Just a thought....