144: Where Words Fail | This American Life

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One reason we tell stories is to explain things to ourselves that cannot, in the end, always be explained. When someone we’re close to dies, we struggle for a way to get our minds around the fact of their absence. And often—the stories we invent aren’t quite up to the job. In this week’s show, people struggle to invent words adequate to cope with death.

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