Episode 133 - FACING OUR MORTALITY, NOT RUNNING AWAY

The Survivor's Guide to Life

We return to an article by Dr. Sunita Puri, a palliative medicine physician: "We Must Learn to Look at Grief, Even When We Want to Run Away" (New York Times, 2-23-22). The Covid-19 pandemic has bombarded our world with grief and loss. Dr. Puri writes, and we agree, that there is value in facing our own pain and mortality. We also have the valuable opportunity to relate to others' pain as fellow human beings, through witnessing their pain. As witnesses, we can have compassion for each other and come together to overcome conflict and division.