Designing Your Last Moments on Earth

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"I wanted to join this rapture, but I'd witnessed my father's death as something so so quiet and something that didn't remotely resemble any of these lofty visions," she says. "My father's experience felt so undesigned and so over-medicalized and in many ways quite inhumane." The team at IDO built a tunnel from their office entrance on the pier at the bay in San Francisco to an inner sanctum where they met with BJ.

Sam Harris speaks with BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger about preparing for death. They discuss the difference between palliative care and hospice, the tension between getting the most out of life and not clinging to experience, planning for death while still healthy, the importance of an advance directive, navigating the healthcare system, pain control at the end of life, assisted suicide, psychedelic therapy for end-of-life anxiety, and other topics.

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