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Podcast Recording Disaster
- Neil Ferguson and Joe Walker experienced a podcast recording failure where Neil forgot to record his end.
- Ferguson compared this to Thomas Carlyle, who lost a manuscript to a cleaning lady's mistake and had to rewrite it.
Death Shapes Historical Pursuit
- Neil Ferguson does not fear death but mourns the premature loss of loved ones.
- His historical awareness of mass death influenced his pursuit of history.
Modern Death is Remote Reality
- Western attitudes to death shifted from omnipresence to avoidance from medieval times to modern age.
- Death is now remote, making it harder to process increased mortality during disasters.