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779: Ends of the Earth

779: Ends of the Earth

Update: 2023-09-2412
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An exploration of the very upper limits of what you do for someone you love.

  • Prologue: Host Ira Glass explains what we’re doing on today’s show. (2 minutes)
  • Act One: Amy Bloom tells the story of her husband, Brian, getting Alzheimer's and wanting assisted suicide. Her search to find a way to do that led her to Dignitas, in Switzerland. Hear this intimate and frank account of the experience they go through, excerpted from her book, IN LOVE. (39 minutes)
  • Act Two: Comedian Zarna Garg tells jokes onstage about the extreme ways she tries to control her daughter Zoya’s life. Zoya explains, they’re not really jokes.  Ira Glass talks to both of them about it. (15 minutes)

Transcripts are available at thisamericanlife.org

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779: Ends of the Earth

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