This is the Moth Radio Hour.
I'm your host Jay Allison.
This is an hour of stories about life after death and
if you don't mind I'll start with a quote from Keanu Reeves who when asked by Stephen Colbert what he thinks happens after we die said,
I know the ones who love us will miss us.
In this show a bunch more answers to that question from a doctor a Renaissance fair gravedigger,
and of course, the loved ones we leave behind.
We start with Panduranga Rao, who told this at an open mic story slam in Ann Arbor,
where we partner with Michigan Public.
Here's Panduranga, live from the mall.
Hello, I'm Pandu.
I'm a doctor.
You might have guessed that because I'm Indian.
But it's particularly relevant to, you know, what I'm going to say about belonging.
I finished medical school in 1986 and like a lot of my classmates,
although I graduated and here I was an official doctor, I still felt like an imposter.
I still felt that, no, am I really a doctor?
Do I really deserve to be a doctor?
But, you know, I didn't have the courage to actually face that.
So I had to go looking for a job, and I lived in a place called Madras,