I believe that you can grieve non deaths, divorce, all this other kind of hard stuff, and it puts you in the same vulnerable position. With looking at panotology, you'll see how deeply connected death is to life. Evidently, until 19 eighties, the notion that animals had emotions was schmalz. And then, using imaging, researchers started looking at brain activity of animals. And were like ashi. In 20 12, a group of nervou scientists attended a conference on consciousness in human and non human animals. And together they signed the cambridge declaration on consciousness in non human animals which says, hey, ouse holes, animals are conscious and their brains
Hoooo boy. We're all up in death and dying's bizness and to Alie's shock, it's not a bummer. Confront and perhaps OVERCOME existential anxiety as we discuss not only the science of death but the nature and goddamn beauty of life. Everything from burial methods, the latest in eco funerals, what a funeral director hates most, how gnomes die, and how to regret less. Meet your new favorite thanatologist and oddly, get the guts to be the you you want to be.
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