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    After Life

    Radiolab stares down the very moment of passing, and speculates about what may lay beyond...

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    KCRW placeholderBy Jad Abumrad • Jul 22, 2012 • 1 min read

    What happens at the moment when we slip from life...to the other side? Is it a moment? If it is, when exactly does it happen, and what happens afterward? It's a show of questions that don't have easy answers. So, in a slight departure from our regular format, we bring you eleven meditations on how, when, and even if we die.

    Learn more or listen again to this episode, which originally aired April 17, 2011.

    Banner image: eioua/flickr

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      Jad Abumrad

      creator of "Radiolab," and host of the new podcast “Fela Kuti: Fear No Man”

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      Robert Krulwich

      host of 'Radio Lab'

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