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07.16.2006
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The Meaning of Life

Part Five

 

What happens when we die? Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen says much more than you think. Not so, says novelist Jim Crace. He thinks we're just flesh to begin with and become meat after we die. In this hour of To the Best of Our Knowledge, we focus on death, and how an honest reckoning with the Grim Reaper can help us live a better life.

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    Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll has eight books of poetry. The latest one is "New and Selected Poems."

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