Bruce Feiler
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first heard May 2026
last heard 8 Jun
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And so there, there is this, there's, it's an odd thing that going on the internet, which is something of course that is, we all, you know, malign a lot in some ways created empowered women in particular to get over the shame of having, she's like, I'm not celebrating that I haven't divorced, but I don't think my life should be over either.
Right.
To me, the parallel chapter very late in my book is the incredible story of the shame that people felt, women in particular felt, if they had a miscarriage or a stillborn child.
There's not an organized religion.
Judaism, of which I'm a proud member and a big advocate of in a lot of ways,
Maimonides, the great thinker, if you die before 31 days, it's as if you never lived, no funeral.
The Catholic Church, if you were not baptized, you could not be buried in a Catholic graveyard.
So for centuries, dads would take these stillborn children to the edge of town in Ireland and then the whole town would go with them.
They would bury them under abandoned churches in what were called eavesdrop graves.
So that the water coming down the roof would surreptitiously baptize them and they could get to heaven.
Like it was a grandmother in Oregon – I tell this incredible story in my book – who said we need a ceremony for honoring these women and they swept the country.
So it's the bottom-up urge, exactly the question you had of like what is the feeling we're solving?
I feel alone and I don't want to feel alone.
And people finding new ways to connect exactly in those moments, as you said, whenever it happens in your life, not on some chart you read in some undergraduate textbook as a freshman.
And one of the reasons—so, two quick reactions to that beautiful reflection.
Yes, we live twice as long.
And by the way, if you don't choose not to get married or have children, as a lot of people do, then you're not—it means you're not having a pre-approved life ritual between, you know, between 15 and death.
Like, that's just not reflective of who we are.
You know, my data from life is in the transitions.
We—
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