Bonus Sample: “There Are Worse Things Than Dying”

Conspirituality

Derek Beres, Matthew Remski, Julian Walker

Spirituality, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

This is a newly favorite mantra that RFK Jr is using on the presidential stump. The subtext, uttered in the shadow of a pandemic that this guy did what he could to minimize and bypass, carries a lot of American spiritual—or maybe pseudospiritual—baggage. Digging into what he means and what his demographic hears when he says “There are worse things than dying,” can tell us a lot about the status of Death, Grief and Belief in the American psyche—and even global capitalism—in this volatile time. This episode is a recording of a talk Matthew gave at the 2024 Symposium on Death and Bereavement Studies in January, organized online by Terri Daniel of Portland, OR. Show Notes 2024 Symposium - Death, Grief, and Belief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a sample of our Monday Bonus episodes.
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0:25.0	Hello everyone, welcome to Conspiruality, where we investigate the intersection of conspiracy theories and spiritual influence to uncover cults, pseudoscience, and authoritarian extremism.
0:36.0	I'm Matthew Remsky.
0:38.0	We are on Instagram and Threads at Can Spirituality Pod
0:42.0	and you can access all of our episodes ad free, plus our Monday
0:46.7	bonus episodes on Patreon or just our bonus episodes via Apple subscriptions. We have a book out. It's called
0:55.3	Conspiruality, how New Age conspiracy theories became a health threat.
0:59.8	It's in print, e-book, and audiobook format narrated by me.
1:05.0	This is a Patreon bonus episode called
1:09.0	There are worse things than dying.
1:12.0	It's in quotation marks because it's ironic. It's a talk I gave
1:16.7	at the 2024 symposium on death and bereavement studies in January that was organized online by Terry Daniel out of Portland.
1:26.4	It's an annual event attended by chaplains, hospice workers, psychotherapists and anthropologists,
1:32.1	and this year the theme was death, grief, and belief.
1:37.2	Derek was there too presenting on end-of-life psychedelic therapy which was cool.
1:44.9	My talk was a little bit fringe and somewhat grumpy because I wanted to lay out how the toxic vibes of
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