Meet the teenager who wants us to confront our mortality.
You know the old joke about death and taxes? Well, for a fate that every human person has eventually had to face, death is a surprisingly uncomfortable topic in our society. The word is replaced by euphemisms, and death itself is often covered up with make-up and decoration. We are not a society that wants to confront our mortality.
But is that healthy? High school senior Alejandra Treviño doesn’t think so, and soon she will be sharing her opinions on this with the world when, on April 21, she becomes the youngest person to give a TED talk at TEDxAkron. Shaped by her Mexican heritage and early exposure to the reality of death, Alejandra’s perspective on death is one of a natural process that shouldn’t and can’t be avoided.