Fear of death and its role in religious belief form the subject of this two-part video essay from TheraminTrees, built around Terror Management Theory, the framework Ernest Becker laid out in The Denial of Death and psychologists Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon later tested in the lab. The films walk through their mortality-salience experiments, showing how reminding people of death changes their judgments, including a 2004 study finding that references to 9/11 boosted support for President Bush. Blaise Pascal's image of condemned men in chains, watching each other die one by one while awaiting their own turn, opens the discussion of why the question of death provokes discomfort many people would rather not examine. The series also weighs the evidence against itself, noting that the link between death anxiety and religious belief remains uncertain partly because researchers have measured it with blunt or poorly defined instruments. Two parts, narrated over text and graphics in TheraminTrees' usual essay format.