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#295 - Philosophy and the Good Life

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Relational Side of Grief

Grief for the sake of someone who's died is different from relational grief. Relational grief involves you as one of two sides of a relationship but there's also grief that is just about the death of someone else. The kind of loss that attachment would bring, this sort of outward looking loss where the value of something irreplaceable is just gone and you're devastated by that. If we could fully take in that we don't really exist and no one were attached to really exists in the way we think they do then it might be easier to deal with our grief.

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