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On Saying Goodbye

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The last of three illustrated talks about bereavement and coming to terms with our own mortality.
3: The "English Patient" Principle. Michael Rosen talks about how a "primitive pride in our own existence" informs our understanding of our own death and asks whether some kind of belief in an afterlife helps or hinders this process? Repeated from Sunday 5.40pm

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Michael Rosen
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