What sparked your interest in becoming a mortician? Have you ever performed your job upon someone you personally have known? What are your views on cremation.... and how do you view the dead? Should people respect the dead more than they were respected when alive? Should there be a real difference in how we view those who've passed?

I chose to focus my attention on 25:53 Creative Tension - Belonging and Standing Alone and 26:51 Youth Culture. Fry talks about how we as individuals like to blend into a crowd, or as he refers to as, "tribe." We like knowing that we can fit in somewhere and be a part of something bigger than ourselves. However, we as individuals also like to hold onto the fact that, yes, we ARE individuals and we like to do things ourselves- explore our surroundings ourselves, find out who we are and what other people are. We try to fit in while standing out. We like to be different yet the same. Especially when you're at such an age as 18. When he began talking about his "Youth Culture" segment, he was basically reflecting upon how generations may differ and how people don't always understand each other- young and old. Which I definitely see true in our society! Sometimes the older generation doesn't understand my generation, for example, because we go through so many phases of wanting to be people that we aren't meant to be- trying different things, wearing different clothes, etc. Sometimes the older generation just thinks that we should settle on one thing early on in life and stick to that- and forget about experiencing many other things in life.
Fry's whole video about what he wish he knew when he was 18 is going to help all of us, I think. I paid attention to the section I just wrote about the most, but I also gave a listen to all of the other topics as well. For example, the working one. I'm personally turning 18 this October and this allowed me to get a hold of someone older and their perspective.

http://listverse.com/2009/11/02/10-notorious-cases-of-the-bystander-effect/
Here in this link you will notice a total of 10 cases of the bystander effect being in use. These are all examples of which I found incredibly interesting, yet at the same time upsetting. In general, the bystander effect, when addressed to the public in a manner of showing proof, is sort of unfortunate. The fact that people can do something to help another person or a cause, and yet, they fail to act to make any sort of difference- usually a positive one. What I liked about these examples were that they were all very specific to previous events where the bystander effect was evident. The one example out of the ten of which I was most familiar with, was the famous picture of Kevin Carter. This photograph showed a girl resting, obviously in poor health, with a vulture in the background. Obviously a harm!!! Yet, Carter waited nearly 20 minutes just for the vulture to make a move. JUST FOR THAT ONE SHOT! And he did nothing to help this girl. This was a very notorious case of the Bystander Effect.

http://kalldoro.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/bystandereffect.jpg
This image is definitely of major relevance to the Bystander Effect. In the Bystander Effect, especially when involving a group of people, and not just one individual--- people will notice someone who needs help- or that of a general cause. Here in this image, it shows people noticing a man that has fallen, clearly needing assistance- at least that would be the NICE thing to do! However, although his surroundings are concerned, they do not do anything to help, except for assume and HOPE that someone ELSE will help.