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Living With...the End in Mind: Richard Leider

Living With...the End in Mind - January 25, 2021 13:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Living with purpose might not seem to be very important when someone is battling a serious illness. There are a lot of other things to think about, but our guest, Richard Leider, says having a purpose helps in sickness and certainly in health, in fact having a reason to get out of bed is a big b...

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Living With...the End in Mind: Barb McKean

Living With...the End in Mind - December 31, 2020 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
As of the end of 2020, there were an estimated 109,000 American adults and children waiting to get a life saving organ transplant. By the end of this day though, 17 people will have died while waiting.  Stillwater, Minnesota native, Barb McKean knows what that's like to wait. She needed a doubl...

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Living With...the End in Mind: Sonya Goins Part Two

Living With...the End in Mind - December 03, 2020 12:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Sonya Goins is a broadcast journalist, a marathoner and a woman who has been living with Crohn's Disease since she was a college student. Her friends all say Sonya is an inspiration, a bright light, who doesn't let the serious gastrointestinal disease dictate her life. In this second part of h...

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Living With...The End in Mind: Sonya Goins

Living With...the End in Mind - November 29, 2020 22:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
There's an apt saying, “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."  That's true but for many of us, the battle is harder than most. In this episode of "Living With..." we meet Sonya Goins. Sonya is a reporter for CCX Media in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and she's been living ...

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Living With...the End in Mind: Randy Shaver

Living With...the End in Mind - September 22, 2020 16:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
We're back and this time with the story of a well known television news anchor in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area who has beaten back cancer not once, but twice. How KARE-11's Randy Shaver is living with purpose, vibrancy and hope.  Support the Show.

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Covid Conversations: Frank Ostaseski

Living With...the End in Mind - June 18, 2020 15:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
We saved the best for last. Frank Ostaseski is the co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco and the Metta Institute. He's the author of the best selling book "The Five Invitations" and his thoughts on death and dying will change your life.  Support the Show.

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Covid Conversations: Dr. Carol Bruess and Christy Moe-Marek

Living With...the End in Mind - May 25, 2020 22:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The pandemic has cast a hot, bright spotlight on the need for an advance care directive but really, how the heck do you start talking about what you or a loved one wants at the end of life, when you've still got a lot of life left...or even if there isn't? End of life conversations are fraught w...

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The Covid Conversations: Thaddeus Pope and Art Caplan

Living With...the End in Mind - May 13, 2020 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
So, you've written an advance care directive. You've made it clear, you think, about the kinds of medical care you want should you get sick with Covid-19 or you're in the midst of a medical crisis. Will your wishes be followed?  We talk with two bioethics experts.  Support the Show.

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The Covid Conversations: Dr. Ann McIntosh

Living With...the End in Mind - April 29, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
You're not feeling well. You think you might have Covid-19 and so you head to the emergency room. If you take a turn for the worse, what kind of care do you want? Do you have an advance care directive?  In this episode of our limited series, an emergency room doctor walks us through end of life ...

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The Covid Conversations: Melissa Jones

Living With...the End in Mind - April 24, 2020 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
If you don't know someone who has battled or is battling COVID-19, you will soon enough.  Melissa Jones, the single mother of two girls, was in good physical shape until she started to feel a little rundown and had a slightly sore throat in March of 2020. That began a more than month long battle...

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The Covid Conversations: Kate Bowler

Living With...the End in Mind - April 17, 2020 18:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The Covid 19 pandemic has upended our lives. People are getting sick and many are dying. Beyond the upheaval of everyday living, the virus is shining a bright, harsh light on our mortality.  In this special series of conversations, we talk about planning for the end of life with advance care dir...

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Living With...The End in Mind: U.S Senator Norm Coleman

Living With...the End in Mind - January 06, 2020 16:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
You often hear politicians promising they'll fight for constituents if they get to the statehouse or Capitol Hill but what happens when the fight isn't over politics or policy... it's a life or death battle with cancer being the foe.   In this episode of "Living With...The End in Mind", host Cat...

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Living With...Grace

Living With...the End in Mind - November 20, 2019 12:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
If you were diagnosed with a potentially fatal illness, what would you do? How would you live? Los Angeles based actress and model Grace Wethor was faced with those questions when she was just 13 years old. Grace was diagnosed with a brain stem tumor. Surgery isn't an option and this type of c...

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