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Greta Christina on Coping with Death, No Afterlife Required
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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Dec 22, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Our Guest this week is Greta Christina, popular atheist blogger, speaker and author of several books on atheism including her newest, “Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do With God.”
Christina discusses with Lindsay Beyerstein the tendencies we have to avoid and deny death and how it affects our abilities to cope. Christina explains how the concept of an afterlife may actually be failing to prepare people for the end of their lives, and how we can use our humanism and skepticism to find comfort in the midst of mortality and grief.
Released:
Dec 22, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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