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You're listening to How to Bea Bea Better Human.

I'm your host Chris Duffy,

and this is the first episode of season four of our

podcast. Thank you so much for listening. We are really excited to be back.

On today's episode we're going to be talking about an experience that every single

human being on the planet is going to experience,

but one that we often avoid acknowledging or discussing openly.

I'm talking about death.

One of the first times I ever really contemplated death was when I was a little

kid and my pet hermit crab, named Krabby, died. I had unfortunately decided without my parents

knowing it that I was going to bring

Krabby along on a trip that we were taking to the beach but when we got to the

parking lot I got really excited about the beach and I forgot that I had brought

Krabby in the car and so when we got back after a long day at the beach

the car had been really hot and Krabby melted he'd melted right into the floor mat it was

disgusting and horrific not a good way to go. I'll feel guilty about that for the rest of my life

Krabby if you can hear me. I am so sorry now I think we can all agree that none of us want to go out like crappy. But how do we actually want to go? All kidding aside,

refusing to think about our plan for death just makes it less likely that things at the end of our lives

will go the way we want them to.

And of course we can never have complete control over the circumstances, but today's guest

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