KERA's Think

Seeing Ghosts Can Actually Be Good For Us


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We often hear stories of dead loved ones appearing in dreams to comfort the living. So why isn’t this considered part of normal bereavement? Patricia Pearson joins host Krys Boyd to talk about why we dismiss these phenomena as nonsense and what we miss in the healing process when we do. Her article, published in The Walrus, is called “Why Do We See Dead People?”
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