Dec 03 2024 13 mins
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In the epilogue to his book, Achieving a Good Death, author Chris Palmer summarizes his thoughts on how we might reconceptualize our basic attitudes about the process of dying and death itself.
Death tends to be a taboo subject, but death is a natural and inevitable part of life. It is death that gives meaning to life and makes it precious.
Chris says that his goal is to have a long "healthspan," and then a "Niagra Falls end-of-life." He wants to stay healthy for as long as possible, then experience a short period of deterioration leading to death.
Chris and I discuss how old age can be a time to places less emphasis on doing and becoming and more emphasis on being. We hope this series of podcasts encourages you to become a student of your own end-of-life and helps you to prepare for the kind of death you want to have.
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