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Death, or a Cannonball Jump

An Innocent Discussion About Death
Ewa Pawlik
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Ewa Pawlik:

Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Manager – “Przekrój” Magazine.

Most of the (very) young panellists participating in this series of inter-generation discussions moderated by “Przekrój” define life as a continuum of self-supporting information. Yet controversy and differences in opinion appear when the conversation goes in the direction of death.

This is indeed a difficult topic, and we honestly admit that we weren’t sure how to tackle it. The solution was finally suggested by the panellists themselves, who proposed that we tackle and digest this existentially complex problem while tackling and

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Ewa Pawlik:

Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Manager – “Przekrój” Magazine.

Translation: Mark Ordon
Publish date: 29.10.2019

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was born in Gdańsk. She is a psychologist and sociologist. She used to work as a reporter for the “Gazeta Wyborcza” daily in Gdańsk. For seven years, she was based in Brussels, where she worked with the Polish Press Agency (PAP). Currently, she is the EU correspondent for the Polish office of “Deutsche Welle” and a contributor to PAP Technologies. She graduated from the Polish School of Reportage.

As Duncan Gow, a poor tailor from Edinburgh, ate his vegetable sandwiches, he didn’t suspect that this would be the last meal of his life. He died three hours and 15 minutes later.

It was 21st April 1845, at 4pm. The 43-year-old tailor was ravenously hungry – no surprise, he hadn’t eaten all day, he’d only had a glass of whisky with a friend, around noon. But Duncan’s children, a 10-year-old son and a 6-year-old daughter, decided to surprise their father by preparing him sandwiches from wild vegetables and herbs. Including from parsley, which their father loved so much that that day he ate an entire bunch. He said it was delicious.

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