In this episode of WADING, I continue my journey through grief by asking a question that has accompanied human beings for centuries: what remedy do we seek when we’re confronted with death?
Grief cannot simply be hidden or annihilated. But it can be listened to. And when we listen to it, it can reveal itself as another face of love: the trace of a presence that continues through memory, even when someone is no longer with us in the same way.
Starting from my personal experience of bereavement, I explore how contemporary society often leaves us unprepared for death and mourning, and how human beings have historically searched for protection from precariousness through relationships, institutions, technology, spirituality, science and knowledge.
But what about philosophy? From the earliest Greek thinkers to Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Emanuele Severino, philosophy has long confronted the anguish of death by searching for meaning and truth.
This episode is an invitation to rediscover philosophy as a possible practice of preparation: a meditatio mortis capable of helping us think about death before death forces us to.
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