A Life After Death – Part I

In a series of heartwrenching essays, told over the course of two episodes, Gal Zaychner returns to the most painful period of her life. “There are moments in life,” she writes, “in which we think about worst-case-scenarios: About loss, about disasters, about the most terrible what-ifs. We think about how we would act. How we would cope. Then, we try to push these thoughts away, because we want to make sure they don’t – simply by lingering in our head for too long – somehow become part of our reality.” But Gal no longer has the privilege of pushing such thoughts away. For her, they are life itself.

Our episode tells the tragic story of a victim of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Please take that into account when deciding whether to continue listening.