{"id":7827,"date":"2014-04-13T17:09:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T21:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=7827"},"modified":"2016-04-16T10:03:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T14:03:05","slug":"on-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/on-dying","title":{"rendered":"On Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s podcast with DG Myers is one of my faves (he wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/dgmyers.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/dying-is-12-step-program.html\" target=\"_blank\">a great piece spinning out of it<\/a> on his site). As I mentioned in my intro, it&#8217;s not the only episode I&#8217;ve recorded with a guest about illness, dying, or the impact of a near-death experience on one&#8217;s life. If you&#8217;re interested in more of those conversations, here&#8217;s a list of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-reading-maketh-a-full-man\" target=\"_blank\">DG Myers<\/a> &#8211; Will succumb to Stage IV prostate cancer within the next 18 to 24 months<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-consolation-of-poetry\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Hadas<\/a> &#8211; Husband died after developing early onset Alzheimer&#8217;s disease<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-comic-sans\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Spurgeon<\/a> &#8211; Infection left him in a coma a few years ago; his recovery has led him to re-evaluate his life<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-fire-and-bleak-house\" target=\"_blank\">Boaz Roth<\/a> &#8211; On rebuilding after a house fire<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-look-in-your-heart\" target=\"_blank\">John B.<\/a> &#8211; Was dead for 10 minutes and then resuscitated; we talked a year later about it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I thought about breaking out a few other categories here as a sort of podcast primer, but realized that &#8220;Older Jewish Writers&#8221; was taking up <i>way\u00a0<\/i>too many entires, so you&#8217;re probably best served checking out all the episodes <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive#episodes\" target=\"_blank\">over here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week&#8217;s podcast with DG Myers is one of my faves (he wrote a great piece spinning out of it on his site). As I mentioned in my intro, it&#8217;s not the only episode I&#8217;ve recorded with a guest about illness, dying, or the impact of a near-death experience on one&#8217;s life. If you&#8217;re interested &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/on-dying\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Dying&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1183],"tags":[2534,2495,2535,2533,174],"class_list":["post-7827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-boaz-roth","tag-dg-myers","tag-mark-felstkog","tag-rachael-hadas","tag-tom-spurgeon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-22f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7814,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-reading-maketh-a-full-man","url_meta":{"origin":7827,"position":0},"title":"Podcast: Reading Maketh a Full Man","author":"Gil","date":"April 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Note: DG Myers died on Sept. 26, 2014, about 6 months after we recorded this episode. You can read my contribution to his festscrhift here. Virtual Memories \u2013 season 4 episode 13 - Reading Maketh a Full Man, or, \"Where is the Lesbian on This List?\" \"I would take an\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&l=as2&o=1&a=0226554546","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16517,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-569-silence","url_meta":{"origin":7827,"position":1},"title":"Episode 569 &#8211; Silence","author":"Gil","date":"December 28, 2023","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 569: Silence \"This story involves a mild concussion, and starts with an altered state of consciousness, but everything I\u2019m telling you happened, even the neighbor and the waitress. At least, it\u2019s how I remember it.\" No interview this time! 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These notions have and continue\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;literature&quot;","block_context":{"text":"literature","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/literature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&l=as2&o=1&a=031609787X","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8463,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-hollow-man","url_meta":{"origin":7827,"position":3},"title":"Podcast &#8211; The Hollow Man","author":"Gil","date":"December 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show: The Hollow Man It's the ONE-HUNDREDTH EPISODE\u00a0of The Virtual Memories Show!\u00a0And they said it would never last!\u00a0To celebrate hitting the century mark, I asked past guests, upcoming guests and friends of the show to interview me this time around! 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