Ep. 295 - Grief and Mortality

The Breakdown with Shaun King

The North Star

News, Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Mortality is something every person deals with, but few talk about. On today's episode, Shaun shares a personal message about the emotions that come with loss, and how he deals with them. While The North Star takes a sabbatical week, we've decided to rerun the top 5 most listened to episodes of The Breakdown. Here is one of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today our entire staff at the North Star and our team at the breakdown we're on a
0:05.0	sabbatical for the week and so we're playing our most downloaded most listened
0:09.5	most shared episodes of all time and today is an episode on grief and loss and death.
0:16.6	I know it sounds heavy, but I share my heart on what this means and it was recorded
0:22.3	the day after
0:23.9	Kobe Bryant and his daughter and many of their teammates were killed.
0:29.3	That was actually this year.
0:31.6	It seems like almost years ago,
0:35.0	it was before the pandemic, before the coronavirus,
0:38.0	but it shows you how much things have changed.
0:41.0	And so I just want you to hear it
0:42.0	because the lessons from that episode are really relevant for so much that we're experiencing right now.
0:48.0	All right? This is Sean King and you are listening, The Breakdown.
0:54.0	Break down.
0:55.0	The Breakdown.
0:57.0	Break down.
0:58.0	The Breakdown. The Breakdown. You know I had so many conversations yesterday with my wife, with my children.
1:11.0	So many conversations with brothers that are currently in the NBA, retired athletes in the
1:16.2	NBA, guys that I've become friends with over the years, I had so many conversations
1:21.0	about the sting of death, the pain of it, the finality of it, and you know know as many of you may know I was a pastor for many years and
1:37.0	depending on what faith tradition you are part of you know many faith traditions don't see physical death as finality but for those of us
1:47.5	left on earth whatever our worldview,
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