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<v Speaker 1>Hello and welcome. This is the WBZ Book Club and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm Jordan Rich. He's the best selling author Sebastian Younger.

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<v Speaker 1>Most of us know him for his huge hit The

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<v Speaker 1>Perfect Storm. His latest is a powerful memoir called In

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<v Speaker 1>My Time of Dying, How I came face to face

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<v Speaker 1>with death and the idea of an afterlife. Back in

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<v Speaker 1>the summer of twenty twenty, Sebastian Younger found himself in pain,

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<v Speaker 1>crippling pain in his midsection, and Younger was rushed to

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<v Speaker 1>the local Cape Cod hospital, where his life began to

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<v Speaker 1>slip away. Massive internal bleeding caused his body to shut down.

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<v Speaker 1>As the light in his hospital room dimmed, Younger says

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<v Speaker 1>his dead father came to him in a vision, inviting

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<v Speaker 1>his son to join him, saying there's nothing to be

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<v Speaker 1>scared of. I'll take care of you well. This near

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<v Speaker 1>death experience certainly affected Sebastian Younger, a confirmed atheist, so

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<v Speaker 1>he did what he's done in so many previous books,

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<v Speaker 1>researching his condition and physical deterioration and depth, how the

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<v Speaker 1>doctor saved him and the big question what happens to

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<v Speaker 1>us when we die? Powerful and well written In My

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<v Speaker 1>Time of Dying, the very latest from Sebastian Younger, The

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