Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)

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We'd love to hear from you. Today is March 24, 2026, and my guest is author Sebastian Junger. This is his third appearance on Acon Talk. He was last year in June of 2021 talking about his book Freedom. Before that in 2018, we talked about his book Tribe.

I loved both those books. Our topic for today and his latest book is In My Time of Dying, how I came face to face with the idea of an afterlife. And I want to say before we start that I like this book even more than the other two, which is saying something. Listeners, please go buy it, read it. Uh, it's it's beautifully written and it makes you think.

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