 What's up everybody? This is Chris from the rewired soul where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution in this video We're gonna be breaking down season 4 episode 6 of black mirror called the black museum There will be spoilers. So if you haven't watched it yet go watch it come back and let's talk But we're gonna be focusing on one of the themes of this episode Which is grief as well as the fear of death and that comes from the story the beautiful love story revolving around Jack and Carrie so Black Museum is a few episodes bundled into one which I'm kind of happy about because episode five I was not a fan of but anyways in this story of Jack and Carrie. They meet at a party. It's beautiful They fall in love they end up getting Carrie pregnant. She ends up having a baby and When the baby is very young she ends up getting hit by a car put into a coma one of the revolving themes around black mirror is Not only social commentary about where we're headed with technology and social media and all that kind of stuff But also the theme around consciousness All right And if you haven't yet be sure to hit the subscribe button because I'm gonna be doing another video about the theme of consciousness in black mirror But what they end up doing with Carrie is they end up tapping into her consciousness So even though she is in a coma she could signal yes or no and kind of experience conversations with Jack when he comes and visit her in the hospital well What they end up doing is there's one of the scientists one of the medical scientists He ends up telling Jack that what he can do is Take the consciousness out of Carrie transfer it into him and Carrie will experience everything that Jack experiences Everything from the foods he eats to the hug of their child, but this will kill Carrie completely It's basically pulling the plug So Jack ends up saying yes Carrie ends up saying yes first which is why Jack did it and they transfer Carrie's consciousness into Jack and this seems like a good idea But as the episode goes on it turns into a nightmare and Carrie ends up getting her consciousness Transferred into a stuffed animal for her child which her child ends up growing out of not liking anymore And then Carrie gets stuck in the black museum. All right, so that's just kind of a breakdown of this segment of The episode black museum, but like I said in this video I have a mental health channel and what we're gonna be talking about is grief as well as the fear of death So first let's talk about grief Jack's decision his overall decision to do this is because this grief that we feel when somebody is either dying or When they die and there's fear of letting people go Something that is a fact of life is that we're all going to die and many people have tried to find ways to prolong their life and things like that and One of the things that hurts us the most the most grief that we can experience is when somebody who we love Passes away in these moments when somebody is on their way out or when they're about to die Part of our human nature is to be extremely selfish Extremely selfish. We want to keep people on life support We want to keep people living as long as possible even though they are completely miserable and ready to die so the what Jack did was extremely selfish, all right and I understand that Carrie wasn't in the right mindset either and I'll talk about Carrie more in a second Her fear of death, but Jack putting her consciousness into him These emotions that we have and makes us make very impulsive and rash decisions. We're not able to Step back and take a look at the big picture Basically the way our brains work is that when we're running high on emotions the prefrontal cortex of the brain is not functioning properly We're not able to think logically. We're not able to plan ahead and look at that big picture of what may happen So in this moment when Jack decides to put Carrie's consciousness inside of him Jack's not thinking about will I ever get over Carrie? Will I ever want to be with another woman? But you also don't take into consideration the fact that couples fight, right? And imagine being somebody stuck in somebody else's head It's kind of like a little bit like a weird version of the movie get out, right? So Carrie is stuck in the sunken place So when somebody is trapped inside their body like imagine what this person is going through right and Jack can hear Everything that Carrie is saying almost like it's a thought So Carrie getting restless and having all her own opinions about the way they should parent their child and things like that ends up driving Jack completely insane so everything that happened to Carrie afterwards is Because of Jack's original decision to prolong Carrie's quote-unquote life, which is merely just her consciousness This episode hits very close to home with me because when my grandma was put on hospice back in 2016 and she was slowly on her way out my grandmother was ready to die and My grandma was the most important person to me in my life I actually thought you know when I first got clean that when my grandma dies I'm probably gonna relapse right But in that moment when my grandma was going through her suffering and her pain You know the weeks or months before she passed away And I was feeling that grief and that pain and that agony it's something that meditation is helping me do is Look at it and say am I being selfish in this moment? My grandma was ready. She was ready to move on Right, but I wanted to I wanted to keep her here as long as possible So when we're experiencing grief and this might be something a little controversial, but when we're experiencing grief We have to check in with ourselves and ask ourselves Is this selfish is this selfish of me to want to keep this person alive when they're ready to die Right and this actually throws back to another episode of black mirror in a previous Season where a woman's boyfriend passes away and she brings his consciousness back to life in a robot So what I want you to take away from this grief section of the video is ask yourself like is this selfish Do I make selfish decisions as a way to avoid the pain of grief? Now let's talk about Carrie Carrie's fear of death Carrie's fear of not seeing their little boy grow up Carrie's fear of not being able to be alive, right? It's a very healthy fear in no way shape or form who are saying that it's not healthy to Be afraid of death like it sucks. It does suck, but Looking at it It's the way that we perceive death and this lack of acceptance that we have for death that Everybody that we know including ourselves is going to die someday And it's something that we try to avoid on a daily basis. We don't talk about it We don't think about it, but something that makes me experience life to the fullest is This attitude of gratitude on a daily basis that I am just so grateful to even be alive Because any day tomorrow I can walk outside and I can get hit by a bus just like Carrie did But that fear of death caused Carrie to make a very rash decision as well Which was agreeing to have her consciousness Transferred over to Jack so she wouldn't die which in turn locked her into a prison of a little stuffed monkey For the rest of her quote-unquote life So this fear and lack of acceptance of death can make us make some very very very bad decisions And I really enjoy how black mirror touches on these things and shows us But I don't think many people are looking at the mental health aspect of it of our own relationship With grief and death because there are healthy ways to cope with these things and I've had to cope with grief, but Luckily, I haven't had to cope with death yet, but anyways If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and again If you haven't yet hit that little round subscribe button because my whole channel is about Helping you out with your mental health and I have a whole playlist of black mirror episode breakdowns So click or tap on the playlist thumbnail up there or below check out one of the other videos on this channel Thanks so much for watching. 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