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Aleks Krotoski

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2026-02-20

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1. “So I have always been, I would sort of describe it as obsessed with death. I'd like to think of it in being obsessed with it in a healthy way. I did go through my goth phase when I was a teenager, of course, as hopefully we all do, because it's kind of a fun place to swim around in. But I remember in my undergrad taking a course kind of randomly, it was on death studies. I had been a psychologist. I was studying psychology. I was working in psychiatric hospitals at the time. And it was before I kind of narrowed down my interest in social psychology, sort of how people influence one another in groups. And I discovered this class, death studies, and it was the most interesting class, hands down I have ever taken, because it was all about the psychological, the physiological, the social, the”

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