MINDRAMP PODCASTS
BRAIN HEALTH
MENTAL MANAGEMENT
A GOOD DEATH
Let's not just fade away; let's FLOURISH as we age!
The MINDRAMP Podcasts focus on three key components that have been shown to contribute to flourishing in the later years of your life. You will find mini-series of episodes that explore each component.
1) Keeping your brain and body healthy - see The Roots of Brain Health
2) Managing your mental states - see Flourishing
3) Planning the kind of death you want to have - (coming 10/1/24))
You will also find the occasional episodes that focus social concerns that I feel have an impact on our well-being, for example "Elections."
Podcasting since 2020 • 186 episodes
MINDRAMP PODCASTS
Latest Episodes
END-OF-LIFE #6 - Remembrance Rituals & Grieving
This is the sixth of my interviews with Chris Palmer, author of the new book called ACHIEVING A GOOD DEATH. In this episode we discuss the purpose of remembrance rituals - memorial services, eulogies and obituaries. Chr...
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Season 4
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Episode 38
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17:51
END-OF-LIFE #5 - Body Disposition (What to do with the body)
This is the fifth episode of my end-of-life interviews with Chris Palmer, author of the new book called ACHIEVING A GOOD DEATH. To flourish as we age we need to live the best life we can and also have the best death we can. MINDRAMP's en...
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Season 4
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Episode 37
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21:19
END-OF-LIFE #4 - Exit Strategies
Chris Palmer, author of the new book Achieving a Good Death, and I discuss the different choices we have about how to exit our lives. Chris offers five "exit strategies," including: Withholding Life Saving...
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Season 4
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Episode 35
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31:49
ELECTIONS - The Media of Disinformation
This short essay., written for the Winter 2025 edition of 3rd Act Magazine, focuses on how modern media platforms provide propagandists with powerful vehicles for the disseminating of disinformation. I discuss Marshal McLuhan's ide...
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Season 4
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Episode 41
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9:35
END-OF-LIFE #3 - Prepare for a Slow Death
The third episode in our end-of-life series Chris Palmer and I (Michael C. Patterson) focus our conversation on what happens when we are in the process of dying. Chris points out that we can die in two ways: suddenly or slowly. So...
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Season 4
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Episode 34
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20:52