The Context: When A Friend Dies

Episode 23 July 04, 2020 00:23:11
The Context: When A Friend Dies
The Context Podcast - David Orban
The Context: When A Friend Dies

Jul 04 2020 | 00:23:11

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Show Notes

My friend Scott Mize died last week from the consequences of a stroke that he received while walking around San Francisco a few days earlier.

Maybe because we die for the first time, breaking a chain of life billions of years long, it is shocking.

Or maybe my life is particularly lucky, and with the exception of my father who died young, death of friends and close relatives was not that much part of it.

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