Death, Sex & Money - When I Almost Died
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Your stories about life after near death.
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| 0:00.0 | You'd like to think you get some kind of enlightenment out of it, but not really, not for me anyway. |
| 0:09.5 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:12.6 | Harry's gone bye-bye. Harry's gone to the big bye-bye. He's got his name of the papers on the backside. |
| 0:17.4 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:20.7 | God, you guys really are dead. |
| 0:23.5 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:25.4 | I'm not afraid of death. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm an assail. |
| 0:29.9 | Six years ago, when Paul Cook was 44, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. |
| 0:35.4 | He went through chemo, and his cancer went into remission. |
| 0:38.6 | Then it came back. |
| 0:40.0 | I thought I was going to die. |
| 0:42.8 | And I've thought about it every day since. |
| 0:47.5 | This time, it was in his lungs. |
| 0:49.9 | Paul went through chemo again. |
| 0:51.8 | He had surgery to remove the tumors in his lungs. |
| 0:54.7 | That was four years ago, and since then, his scans have been clean. |
| 0:58.6 | You asked if it changes you, and for me it definitely did, and not always for the better. |
| 1:06.8 | I'd say for me, it's made me a little more impatient. |
| 1:10.1 | Every moment has to matter, but then it doesn't. |
| 1:16.3 | I asked you to tell me about when you almost died. |
| 1:19.8 | The car hit me. |
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