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Many of us believe we know how we’d choose to die. We have a sense of how we’d respond to a diagnosis of an incurable illness. This week, we revisit a 2019 episode featuring one family’s decades-long conversation about dying. What they found is that the people we are when death is far in the distance may not be the people we become when death is near.
If you enjoyed today's episode, here are some more classic Hidden Brain episodes you might like:
The Cowboy Philosopher
When You Need It To Be True
Me, Myself, and Ikea
Thanks for listening!
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By Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam4.6
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Many of us believe we know how we’d choose to die. We have a sense of how we’d respond to a diagnosis of an incurable illness. This week, we revisit a 2019 episode featuring one family’s decades-long conversation about dying. What they found is that the people we are when death is far in the distance may not be the people we become when death is near.
If you enjoyed today's episode, here are some more classic Hidden Brain episodes you might like:
The Cowboy Philosopher
When You Need It To Be True
Me, Myself, and Ikea
Thanks for listening!
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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