Dr Hannah Gould
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first heard Jul 2026
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Um, but I was an anthropologist and I was studying religion, really interested in the diversity, the beauty, the complexity of human religions and human cultures around the world.
And then.
22, 23 years old and kind of overnight my dad got cancer, had a major heart attack when he was having surgery for that cancer, went into a coma, was in the ICU, thought that he would never wake up.
Woke up in front of my eyes as I was speaking to him in the ICU, um, came back, rallied a year treatment, and died within the course of a year, when I was 22, 23 years old.
Um.
And as I write in the book, I thought I was perfectly mature.
I was like, well, I'm the oldest.
You know, you're like, well, I'm the oldest I've ever been.
This is fine.
You know, I can deal with losing, I think, not just my dad, but my person.
Like, my dad was...
probably is to this day, like, the person in the family that I'm most connected with and understood me.
We're very similar brains.
Um, and you know, upon reflection I was shockingly young.
to lose a parent.
And I think talking about learning to grieve and, you know, getting good at death and normalizing death, one of the things you learn going through that is that, you know, closure is bullshit.
And it's 12, 13 years later, and your grief doesn't disappear, it just changes.
It just gets older as you get older.
Um, and so I think, you know, some people, when they have these big experiences, travel halfway around the world, they go climb a mountain, they go through a lot of therapy, whatever it is.
I think how my brain works, one way my brain works is I said, cool, I'll do a PhD on that.
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