The 2024 election was a lot. And now that we're past it, you might be avoiding political news

altogether, or you might want to understand the other side of the aisle, but without poisoning

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and center. It's your weekly political news check-in

with representatives from both parties,

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in a way that helps you actually make sense of it.

I'm David Green.

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Thank you. Friday, wherever you listen to podcasts. The idea of death is something we're confronted with every day. In the headlines,

in true crime podcasts and violent movies, when we realize that yet again we have managed

to kill a house plant. Many of us prefer to avoid dwelling on our own eventual demise, but the fact

remains that we humans are keenly aware of death as a concept. But are we the only ones?

From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd.

For a long time, we allowed ourselves to believe that an awareness of the possibility of death was one of those things that made humans unique.

There's no way of knowing if a bear or a snake or a bird goes about its daily business knowing life is fleeting,

and these creatures don't seem to mourn

members of their own species who die in ways that look recognizable to us. But if we go beyond

looking for human-like rituals among other animals experiencing death, my guest finds significant evidence

in numerous animals that they indeed have at least a minimal concept of death. Susanna

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