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#104 — The Lessons of Death

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is Death All About Preparing for My Death?

Samuel Johnson: Atheists and secularists are lacking resources to guide them, both when they get sick and need to think about their own deaths or confront the deaths of those close to them. There isn't a strong, familiar, secular tradition around how to perform a funeral, write a who do you call when when someone close to you dies,. no matter how atheistic you are. Many people are left calling their rabbi or their priest or just asking to dumb it down.

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