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CONTENT WARNING: infertility, pregnancy, miscarriage, and abortion.

Chrissy Teigen (and John Legend)\\u2019s recent pregnancy loss related social media posts triggered a flood of reactions, not all of them supportive or positive.\\xa0 Why as a society are we so uncomfortable when publicly confronted with grief due to loss?\\xa0 Why, when one in four pregnancies end in miscarriage, is it so often spoken about in hushed tones, if at all?

Guest Leigh Naturkach, social justice advocate and one of the most death and dying literate people I know, joins me for a fascinating discussion on the nuances of grief and loss in multiple contexts and why we\\u2019re not very good at talking about or living with it, in public or in private.

Resources mentioned in episode:
Death cafe article https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/what-i-learned-about-life-by-talking-about-death/article33121420/

https://modernloss.com/

http://caitlindoughty.com/books

Find Leigh on Twitter @LeighNaturkach

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Music: https://www.purple-planet.com