Death and finitude serve as the necessary foundation for reality, urgency, and the meaningfulness of human life.

“one one fundamental philosophical question is well what does it mean for something to be real and it seems to me that the Hallmark of the real is is death is the finitude of existence”

Modern storytelling, particularly the superhero genre, is often devoid of human nature because it removes death and sex from the narrative.

“it seems to be storytelling without sex and death in it which means it's storytelling in some sense without the human uh without human nature in it”