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On Another Planet They Can Save Me by Lieke Marsman review – an astonishing memoir of terminal illness

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Published four months after her death, the poet’s reflections on mortality are both agonising and profoundly life-affirming There are no atheists in foxholes, goes the saying, and indeed social scientists and evolutionary biologists have argued that the experience of war or conflict drives religious belief; in 2019, Joseph Henrich and others surveyed almost 2,000 people in three post-conflict societies – Uganda,…

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