Facing Death with Stephen Jenkinson: Wisdom Gym
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The Importance of Death in a Culture
A year ago I asked you what does it look like for a culture to die wise. We're somehow by virtue of the plague closer to death personally culturally existentially and so on then we were before it, he says. He suggests this that our manner of contending with the fatal aspects of the plague are very recognizable they come from the time of no plague right? The actual incidence of death as a percentage of infection is so remarkably low that that just as a body count question you really can't make the claim that death is more prevalent among us according to him.
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