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    UnFictional

    The Angel of Death

    Two stories about that key life moment many of us spend a lifetime dreading, one that none of us lives to tell about. The moment. It's all in the timing... (Rebroadcast)

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    By Bob Carlson • Aug 28, 2012 • 28m Listen

    Two stories about that key life moment many of us spend a lifetime dreading. It's a key life event that none of us live to tell about. The moment. It's all in the timing...

    Oscar and Dr. David Dosa

    A video profile of Oscar the cat

    Then, in a Florida retirement community, a visit to an elderly donor ends with a university fund-raiser crouched in the back seat of a squad car, fleeing mob of pocketbook-wielding grandmothers. It’s probably not what the poet Dylan Thomas had in mind when he penned those lines, "Do not go gentle into that good night / Old age should burn and rave at close of day / Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

    Note: This program originally aired on February 10, 2012.

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      Bob Carlson

      host and producer, 'UnFictional'

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