The Neuromantics
Season 1
Episode 3
“Remember me when I am gone away.”
The opening line of Christina Rossetti’s celebrated poem marks the starting point to a discussion of death in this episode of The Neuromantics. Exploring new research into death rites among primates, neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and writer Will Eaves ask whether our brains are really capable of grasping our own demise. As ever, they make some fascinating detours along the way, this time contemplating the relationship between smell and mortality, the phenomenon of the “voice from beyond” in English literature and the shocking extensiveness of meerkat infanticide.
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