When I Almost Died

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A few years ago, I asked you to share your near-death experiences. You told us about car accidents...plane crashes...illness...suicide. And, you told us what happened after, when you didn't die. Today: your stories about life after near death.

You can hear more of my conversation with Elizabeth Caplice, who died in July 2016, here.

We're still collecting your stories about the hardest conversations you've ever had. Send us a voice memo or an email: [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hey, I want to let you know that this episode is about a range of near-death experiences
0:05.8	and includes a discussion of a suicide attempt.
0:08.8	You'd like to think you get some kind of enlightenment out of it, but not really, not for me anyway.
0:16.1	This is Death, Sex, and Money.
0:21.8	Praise gone by, boy.
0:22.9	Harry's gone to the big by-bike.
0:24.3	He's got his name in the papers on the back side.
0:26.8	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot, God, you guys really are dead.
0:32.9	And need to talk about more.
0:34.8	I'm not afraid of death.
0:36.3	I'm in a sale.
0:39.5	Six years ago, when Paul Cook was 44, he was diagnosed with colon cancer.
0:44.8	He went through chemo and his cancer went into remission.
0:48.0	Then it came back.
0:49.4	I thought I was going to die.
0:52.2	And I thought about it every day since.
0:57.1	This time it was in his lungs.
0:59.3	Paul went through chemo again.
1:01.2	He had surgery to remove the tumors in his lungs.
1:04.0	That was four years ago, and since then his scans have been clean.
1:08.0	You asked if it changes you, and for me, it definitely did.
1:14.4	And not always for the better.
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