Michael Sobocinski

Michael Sobocinski

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Michael Sobocinski

The Buffer: What Holds Us When We Face Death

Since 2011, strangers in a hundred countries have met over tea and cake to talk about dying. The research on death anxiety suggests what they're looking for.

Michael Sobocinski

We Shall All of Us Die

In Tolstoy’s novella, a dying judge finds comfort with one person in his house: the servant who says those words to him and sometimes sits up all night holding his legs.

Michael Sobocinski

Why I'm Writing This Book

On our wounded children, a collapsing culture, and a conviction that they are the same problem.

Michael Sobocinski

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