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Nov 2023
52m 58s

Healing 2.0: Disrupting Death

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
About this episode
In 2019, Justin Harrison's mom was diagnosed with terminal cancer. But by the time she died, he had figured out how to keep a part of her alive...forever. This week, the strange and provocative story of a man who believes that grief is not inevitable — that we can, in a way, cheat death. 
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