As a hospice doctor, how has your experience shaped the way that you relate to the dying process? So dealing with people who are dying on a regular basis has changed just about everything i thought i knew about dying. It's made me very thoughtful about my life and what order it is in. We don't know when our time will be. We can put it off cause we don't want to think about it. But it is what it is. What we can do is start building that life of fulfilment as close as we can come to it now. Well, that is a beautiful note. Death has made you less afraid of life, for sure.