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Facing Death with Dignity and a Plan
Aspen Ideas to Go
English - September 21, 2015 17:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MB - ★★★★ - 217 ratingsPhilosophy Society & Culture News Politics technology culture global affairs america diplomacy politics security aspen ideas festival psychology race Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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How can our medical and social systems support or hinder dying? Do we have the right to bend the arc of our own death, or that of a loved one? How can we approach the final passage with grace? Dan Diaz (the husband of Brittany Maynard, who died in November 2014 from a brain tumor) discusses the matter with BJ Miller (executive director of Zen Hospice Project and an assistant clinical professor of medicine at UC San Francisco), Samuel Kargbo (director of policy and planning at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone) and journalist and author Courtney E. Martin.