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Lucy Kalanithi: What Loss Can Teach Us About Living (The Perspective Shift That Changes Everything)

Explore episode Jul 1, 2026

Suffering is not this sort of like side event that you wish would go away. It is here. It will be here. Whether something beautiful comes out of it — whether it connects you to other people, or whether just the pure achievement of persisting alone — I think there is actual meaning in that.

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