Ira Byock — Contemplating Mortality
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Confrontation With Death
Ira Bayak: I think the confrontation with death lays bare the spiritual core of the human condition. Death acts as like a hot wind to really strip away any pretense a person has any sense of self, he says. "What I call spiritual is our innate response to the at once awe-inspiring and terrifying fact of human life"
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