6 Months or Less
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6 Months or Less
What would you ask someone who is nearing the end of their life? This podcast explores the thoughts and feelings of people who have been given a terminal diagnosis and who may have six months or less to live. I also attempt to uncover why these conversations around death and dying can be so hard to...
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23 episodi
Episode 23: Life Is a Gift: Series Finale
When I set out to do this podcast, I wanted to find the answer to a question: What is it like to be facing the end? I wanted to hear the inspiring par...
Episode 22: I'll Even Love You When You Turn to Dirt: Talking with My Son about Death
When I started this podcast, I soon realized that I was exploring death from three different vantage points: from the view of people with a terminal i...
Episode 21: You Haven't Failed: Dr. Annetta Mallon on the "Good Death"
What is a good death? And how can we talk about it in a way that honors a person’s values but doesn’t add pressure? In this episode, I talk with Dr. A...
Episode 20: Open to More Awe: Suing the DEA for Access to Psilocybin
Imagine you’ve been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are consumed by feelings of hopelessness, fear, and depression. What if there was a treatmen...
Episode 19: Gratitude Is the Most Important Tool: Susan Lawrence
When 16-year-old Dylan Lawrence was diagnosed with a diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, the deadliest childhood brain tumor, he said, “I don’t want my...
Episode 18: We Have It Planned Out: Andrea "Mimi" Ankerholz
After being cancer free for several years, Andrea “Mimi” Ankerholz found out that her breast cancer had come back and had spread to her bones. It was...
Episode 17: Facing Death as an Atheist: Dave Warnock
When Dave Warnock was diagnosed with ALS several years ago, he quit his job, moved in with some friends, and decided to start seizing the moments he h...
Episode 16: What Do I Say? Talking to Someone with a Terminal Illness
Do you ever find yourself not knowing what to say to someone with a terminal illness? Maybe you want to show your support but fear you might say the w...
Episode 15: Dying Well as a Retirement Project: Clair Fisher
While Clair Fisher was on a work trip to the Cayman Islands a couple years ago, she had to fly to Florida for an emergency surgery. She would soon lea...
Episode 14: Santa and Mortality
It’s been a while since I posted an episode, so I wanted to do a quick check-in. What an overwhelming year, to say the least. As this year finally com...
Episode 13: How Much Time Do I Have, Doc?: A Conversation with Dr. Michael Fratkin About Prognosis
When my four-year-old son started asking me questions about our neighbor who was in hospice, I realized I was having a difficult time answering his qu...
Episode 12: Mortality Is Messy: Jennifer Dunn
After experiencing troubling symptoms for years, Jennifer Dunn refused to leave the emergency room until she had a CT scan. The scan and a subsequent...
Episode 11: Face Fear with Familiarity: Adam Hayden
When Adam Hayden was 34 years old, he had brain surgery to remove a tumor the size of a baseball from his parietal lobe, the area of the brain respons...
Episode 10: Reflections
During these unprecedented times, I find myself experiencing waves of emotions. How about you? How are you coping? In this episode, I reflect with my...
Episode 9: Terror Management Theory: An Interview with Sheldon Solomon
Being human is pretty great. Our brains are large and sophisticated, which allows us to think and do things in ways that other animals cannot. With th...
Episode 8: I’ve Been Dying My Whole Life: Manuel Santaella
In 1926, a 16-year-old girl was told that she was going to give birth to a stillborn. That baby was Manuel Antonio Santaella, and to everyone’s amazem...
Episode 7: What Matters Most to You? A Conversation with Dr. Sunita Puri about the Coronavirus and Death
While many of us may normally keep our thoughts about death at a distance, the Coronavirus pandemic is forcing those thoughts closer. In this episode,...
Episode 6: What Happens To Me?: Glenn Buckland
When Glenn Buckland was 55 years old, his wife told him, “You’re either going to the hospital or you’re going to the morgue.” After a series of tests,...
Episode 5: Why Is It So Hard To Talk about Death and Dying?
In this episode, I ask a doctor, a medical ethicist, social workers, as well as family, friends, and old coworkers about why it is so hard for us to t...
Episode 4: We're Going To Be Gone Soon: John Low
John Low was diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis at the age of 95, giving him six months or less to live. His granddaughter thought he would be a good...
Episode 3: Death Is the Great Equalizer
How would you find people to interview with six months or less to live? Join me in this episode as I reflect on my process and explore the challenges...
Episode 2: Why This?
Let’s do a thought experiment: Imagine you are in a room with someone who is dying. What would you want to ask? In this episode, I explore some of the...
Episode 1: Introduction
In this introductory episode, my son gives voice to his natural curiosity about death, and I share my own motivation for starting this podcast.
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