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335. Jennifer Michael Hecht on How to Find Meaning, Purpose, and Happiness in Everyday Life

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How to Talk About Death Without Religion

How are we supposed to talk about death without religion? So what is your answer to that question? And more specifically like atheist, you know, if you're at a funeral and somebody says, well, it's okay. He's in a better place. How do you think about that? Well, again, um, poetry is very useful because it opens a lot of questions and ideas without closing anything down. You can offer a poem to someone and they can't exactly reject it. There's not a message being said to them. Nobody's trying to get their vote. But if you, if you hear beautiful words that have a convincing idea that love remains in the heart...you might

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