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This Is Actually Happening

306: What if you lived someone else’s life?

This Is Actually Happening

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Documentary, Tiah, Society & Culture

4.610.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

After learning to endure a toxic relationship with his father, a man crafts a ‘good life’ filled with the privileges of success, but only when he finds himself on the other side of death’s door does he find out what it really means to be alive. 


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Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz


Content/Trigger Warnings: death, cardiac arrest, medical trauma, explicit language

 

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0:00.0

This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events.

0:04.1

Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. All of that aliveness was just richly flowing through this body and this experience of self, of loss, of grief, of remembrance, of

0:29.9

recollection, of love, of importance.

0:33.2

I am here in this moment experiencing the totality of everything relative to this moment in time.

0:45.0

From Wundery, I'm Witt Misledyne. You are listening to this is actually happening. Episode 306. What if you lived someone else's life.

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