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Episode 47

"She Died For Six Minutes
And Came Back Annoyed."

Dr. Renata Osei — cardiologist turned near-death researcher — describes the seventeen seconds she spent somewhere else, and why she came back furious at what we've agreed to accept.

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"I Spent 10 Days In Silence And Cried For 8 Of Them"

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"She said the thing I had been trying to say to my therapist for three years. In one sentence."

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