Episode 5: Coping with Death

In this episode Alvin and I catch up on recent life events, give a run-down of our current podcast listener statistics, quickly discuss a recent news article about unstructured play-time for children (which builds off our previous discussion on helicopter parenting), and introduce the topic of coping with death.   If you are interested in hearing the Making Sense of Death podcast with Sam Harris you can find it here: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/essentials/making-sense-of-death   If you are interested in checking out the book Denial of Death by Ernest Becker you can find out more about it here: https://www.amazon.com/Denial-Death-Ernest-Becker/dp/0684832402   Here is the link the to the Vox article by Anna North about unstructured playtime for children: https://www.vox.com/23759898/kids-children-parenting-play-anxiety-mental-health   Send us your comments and thoughts about how you are coping with thoughts of death, or send us questions about coping with death or mid-life issues to our upcoming guest, who is a licensed mental health professional. You can reach us by email at [email protected]