Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe
March 20, 2025
Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including…
Images of the Dying: A Podcast with Wendy MacNaughton, Lingsheng Li, and Frank Ostaseski
October 3, 2024
Can death be portrayed as beautiful? In this episode, we share the joy of talking with Wendy MacNaughton (artist, author,…
Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck
September 5, 2024
In today’s podcast we set the stage with the story of Dax Cowart, who in 1973 was a 25 year…
What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas
August 22, 2024
We’ve talked about Brain Death before with Robert (Bob) Troug and guest-host Liz Dzeng, and in many ways today’s podcast…
Between Two Urns: Undertaker Thomas Lynch
August 8, 2024
(We couldn’t resist when Miguel Paniagua proposed this podcast idea and title. And no, you’ll be relieved to hear Eric…
What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind
January 11, 2024
Four percent of deaths in Canada are due to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID). Four percent. The number of people…
Life, Death, and a Hospital Strained by COVID: a Podcast with Brian Block, Sunita Puri and Denise Barchas
April 29, 2021
During the winter peak in coronavirus cases, things got busy in my hospital, but nothing close to what happened in…
Let It Break
January 26, 2021
by: Abigail Nathanson, Bridget Sumser, Shirley Otis-Green, and BJ Miller These are survival times. The pandemic, the drawn-out election, the…
Living with Death: A Podcast with BJ Miller
January 14, 2021
Most of us know we are going to die. How often though do we actually let ourselves really internalize that…
Brain Death: A Podcast with Robert Truog
October 1, 2020
In 1968 a committee at Harvard Medical School met to lay down the groundwork for a new definition of death,…