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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 last-minute 'crash course' to better deal with death. She began trying to talk as openly as possible about her experiences and actually felt she'd found a new attitude to both grief and death. She also felt she'd become prepared for, and understanding of, her own death, whenever that time would come. But then Rochi was given a new diagnosis that forced her to face the threat to her life she thought she was ready for. he composure she thought she had was shaken. She deeply questioned the resolve she thought she had built herself years earlier. She was frightened of missing out on the life she wanted to continue, and of leaving alone the people she loved and that loved her. And so Rochi wants to begin the grief crash course anew.

Rochi鈥檚 journey begins with the question - are there practices, rituals or traditions that already exist which can help us prepare for our own mortality? But the question Rochi most wants the answer to - which one will work for her?

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27 minutes

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Fri 21 Feb 2025 04:32GMT

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