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Why it's good to talk about death - Magical Realist - May 6, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVMBCZjk4c0 We're raised to avoid talking about it. At most we may express a passing morbid curiosity about some accident or murder we hear about on the news. But rarely does it affect us personally. Yet it remains the elephant in the room of our slick, image-obsessed soundbyte culture. And it is the one experience that holds us all deeply in common, sharing together its profoundly personal yet universally human inevitability. Someday we will lose everything we love and value and know forever. Nothing will remain. How shall we then live our lives?