As a specialist in medical ethics and the treatment of older patients, and author of The Lost Art of Dying, Dr. Lydia Dugdale knows a great deal about the end of life. In this episode, she speaks with host Devorah Medwin about how our culture has medicalized death, and in doing so, prolongs suffering.
Dr. Dugdale reminds us to get in touch with our sense of finitude- our inevitable impermanence by embracing death literacy as a practice that will help everyone live better and die well.
"In this profound and compassionate book about death and its nearness, Dugdale demystifies one of the essential mysteries of our time." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene