The Inevitability of Loss in Human Life

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Loss is an abstract category of human experience. We all lose endless things, a insane range of things. But we also find a really strange range of also, you know, sur our hearties back again. And i do like to think that these categories are really intimately related to each other and help us make sense of what it means to be alive. W, beautifully said, antmoisell,. It was an honour to talk and thank you so much for sharing your wisdom in these books. So much for having me. O, it's total pleasure. Thanks.

Ryan talks to Kathryn Schulz about teaching your kids how to wrestle with the inevitability of loss and grief, protecting those around us and passing along a better world for your kids, and more.

Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for “The Really Big One,” an article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent book is Lost & Found, a memoir that grew out of “Losing Streak,” which was originally published in The New Yorker and later anthologized in The Best American Essays. Her other essays and reporting have appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Food Writing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

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