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Frank Ostaseski: What the Dying Teach the Living

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The Importance of Breathing

"There's a labor to die," says the author. "Every in-breath struggle, every out-b breath struggle." He asks his dying patient if she would like him to help her breathe more easily. The 86-year-old Russian Jewish woman responds yes.

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