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Ira Byock — Contemplating Mortality

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The End of Life: A Time of Value in Human Life

Dr. Ira Biyak: We have so medicalized the end of life that this notion of wellness seems to some of my own colleagues, you know, utterly antithetical. That's really the process of human development is to maintain or regain a sense of wellness through each of the critical developmental crises of life.

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