Great Professors Online

If you have toyed with the idea of going back to school and taking a college course, but you're just  too busy,  consider this. 

Yale University  is offering free and open access to seven introductory courses taught by their distinguished professors. 

You can download or play a video on your computer.  I plan to listen while I wrap Christmas presents and later while doing my needlepoint in front of the fire.

I've already started with to watch the philosophy classes that Yale students have flocked to for years.

Death with Professor Shelly Kagan
Course description.

There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Are we, in some sense, immortal? Would immortality be desirable? Also a clearer notion of what it is to die is examined. What does it mean to say that a person has died? What kind of fact is that? And, finally, different attitudes to death are evaluated. Is death an evil? How? Why? Is suicide morally permissible? Is it rational? How should the knowledge that I am going to die affect the way I live my life?