Life Is What Happens While You're Planning That Vacation?

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We tend to live in any tense, but the present. When you are caregiving, you really have to slow time down and just be there. The stoic philosopher Seneca writes about the shortness of life. You can either be kind of ravaged by chronos and linear time or it can become very transactional. There's so much wisdom in so much of the conversations you have about this.

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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