Hey, I want to let you know that this episode is about a range of near-death experiences and includes a discussion of a suicide attempt.

You'd like to think you get some kind of enlightenment out of it, but not really, not for me anyway.

This is death, sex, and money.

Harry's gone bye-bye. Harry's gone to the big bye-bye. He's got his name of the papers on the backside.

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

God, you guys really are dead. And need to talk about more.

I'm not afraid of death. I'm in a sale.

Six years ago, when Paul Cook was 44, he was diagnosed with colon cancer.

He went through chemo, and his cancer went into remission.

Then it came back.

I thought I was going to die.

And I've thought about it every day since.

This time it was in his lungs. Paul went through chemo again. He had surgery to remove the tumors

in his lungs. That was four years ago. And since then, his scans have been clean.

You asked if it changes you. And for me it definitely did, and not always for the better.

I'd say for me, it's made me a little more impatient.

Every moment has to matter, but then it doesn't.

I asked you to tell me about when you almost died.

The car hit me.

I was run over by an 18-mile truck.

I came very close to slipping 9,000 feet.

At that very instant, I saw a handgun pointed at me.

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