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No Stupid Questions

8. Wouldn’t It Be Better to Hear Your Eulogy Before You’re Dead?

No Stupid Questions

Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Society & Culture

4.63.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Also: how does a comedian cope with tragedy? With Eugene Mirman.

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0:00.0

He gave you a pink sweater too?

0:01.6

Yeah, we all have the same pink sweater.

0:04.3

I'm Angela Duckworth.

0:06.2

I'm Stephen Dubner.

0:07.2

And you're listening to no stupid questions.

0:10.6

Today on the show,

0:12.1

would it be better to have funerals and give you

0:14.4

logies before people die?

0:16.5

They could turn into interventions, essentially.

0:19.1

You know, there's something I've been wanting to say to you

0:21.2

for a long time now.

0:23.4

Also, comedian Eugene Merman joins us to discuss the question,

0:28.1

what do all funny things have in common?

0:30.3

They're all small.

0:31.2

They're all yellow.

0:32.1

They're always delicious.

0:36.3

So Angela, I had a question to ask you today,

0:38.8

and it suddenly became much more timely,

0:41.4

unfortunately, though, because it's a question about death.

0:45.2

We've discussed death a bit on the show.

0:47.5

Yeah. My original question was going to be,

0:50.4

wouldn't it be better generally to have funerals for people

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