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The only thing certain in life

Can we prepare or train for our own mortality in order to find peace with death?

In 2019, performer and writer Rochi Rampal found herself attending 10 funerals in one year. To contend with this, she embarked on her own 鈥渃rash course鈥 to better deal with death, and felt she had found a new attitude to both grief and dying. But Rochi was then given a new diagnosis that forced her to face the threat to her life that she thought she was ready for and the composure she thought she had was shaken. So Rochi wants to begin again and turns to faith and spirituality for answers while looking back on her personal connection to faith.

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Presenter: Rochi Rampal
Producers: Silvia Malnati and Jesse Lou Lawson
Consultant: Dermot Daly
Executive producer: Anishka Sharma

(Photo: Rochi Rampal with her mother and father. Credit: Rochi Rampal)

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