Episode 41: Grave Goods

Death, et seq. by Tanya D. Marsh

Mar 23, 202600:41:42Science & Medicine

“Riches do not so much exhilarate us with their possession, as they torment us with their loss.” This quotation comes from Robert Burton, a 17th century Oxford scholar and clergyman who understood that our attachment to...

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