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The Bill Radke Treatment: You’re going to die, so what’s the big deal?

Oct 22, 2011, 1:26 PM

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You’re going to die so you might as well talk, argue and laugh about death, on “The Bill Radke Treatment.”

When Gaddafi does it, or a bunch of tigers and lions and giraffes in Ohio do it — well, OK, that’s news. But for most of us, dying is the ultimate non-news. The most ordinary thing there is. 100% of us do it. Halloween celebrates it (sort of). So why are we so squeamish about death?

We met a local funeral director, a rabbi, and a man who has confronted The End. They certainly weren’t squeamish.

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