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Podcast: Accidental Gods
Episode: Death, Dead and Dying - ways of navigating our own mortality: an interview with Dr Judith Wester
Description: We spend our lives squinting past the inevitable reality of our own death. But suppose we were able to talk about it openly, to shape it, to embrace it so that by contemplating a good death, we could become fully alive? Dr Judith Wester is a thanatologist: an academic who specialises in the study of death, dying and the cultural rituals of many nations. Her life is given to teaching others of all ages and in all walks of life how to broach this subject with themselves and so with other people. In this deep dive into de...