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Rachel at a gratitude party thrown nine months after her diagnosis.

Rachel Cowan’s Last Year– ‘Dying Doesn’t Feel Like What I’m Doing’

Amy Stone
March 14, 2020

None of us has died. No matter how close we’ve been to those who have died, it wasn’t us. Death is still a second-hand experience until you’re the one.  

So when a loving friend and filmmaker recorded the last 15 months in the life of mindfulness teacher and rabbi Rachel Cowan, I wanted to learn what wisdom came to her with a diagnosis of brain cancer. 

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Tags: dying doesn't feel like what I am doing, film, rachel cowan

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