Does Death Have to Be a Death Sentence? (Update)

Palliative physician B.J. Miller asks: Is there a better way to think about dying? And can death be beautiful?

SOURCES:B.J. Miller • , palliative-care physician and President at Mettle Health.

RESOURCES:A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death, • by Shoshana Berger and B.J. Miller and (2019). • “ After A Freak Accident, A Doctor Finds Insight Into ‘Living Life And Facing Death • ,'” by Fresh Air • (W.Y.P.R., 2019). • “ Dying In A Hospital Means More Procedures, Tests And Costs • ,” by Alison Kodjak (W.Y.P.R., 2016). • “ The Final Year: Visualizing End Of Life • ,” by Arcadia (2016). • “ What Really Matters at the End of Life • ,” by B.J. Miller ( TED, • 2015). • “ The Flexner Report ― 100 Years Later • ,” by Thomas P. Duffy ( Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, • 2011). • “ My Near Death Panel Experience • ,” by Earl Blumenauer ( The New York Times, • 2009). The Center for Dying and Living • .

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