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Mar 2024
49m 34s

The Ventilator

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
About this episode
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. 
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