Brushes With Death

We have a process when it comes to death. We call it grieving. But there's not much going on, ritualistically speaking, when death brushes past us. In this episode we will be staying with these reminders, these close shaves. We have instances from poems, songs and prose. While Simon, your host, will also be sharing his own lived experience cheats, inspired by Maggie O'Farrell's non-fiction book I Am I Am I Am.Here are some more show notes, starting with:Ten Meter Tower | A Short Film by Maximilien van Aertryck and Axel DanielsonA TIMELINE OF IRA ATTACKS IN LONDONFreud's Concepts of Thanatos and ErosFortune Presents Gifts Not According to the BookJoe Henry's Ohio Plane CrashBongwater's Great RadioSmog's Lazy RainDr Alimantado's Born for a Purpose/reason for LivingNeko Case's TightlyAndrew Bird's Fake PalindromesCourtney Barnett's Avant Gardener And, and, and... it would a great remiss if we didn't flag up the importance of burping kombucha.BTW - If you are interested in the logo of this episode, it comes from a medieval movement called Danse Macabre (Mystery Bonus Track)