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Life Lessons From Helping 100s of People Die

Dropping In With Charlie Houpert

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The Cultural Aversion to Death

During the Civil War, train conductors were not wanting to put any bodies in transit anymore because of the smell. Abraham Lincoln hired doctors to start embalming bodies and that's when death became a business. And now we're here 120 years later in a different cycle. And we're like, but wait, there's something missing. There's something missing in my initiation into adulthood. And that is being with death.

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