Flourish As You Age
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."
Flourish As You Age
END-OF-LIFE #5 - Body Disposition (What to do with the body)
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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 end-of-life series is about the second part of that equation - figuring out what a good death means to us, and then figuring out what we need to do to make it happen.
In this episode, Chris and I talk about body disposition - what to do with the body after death. Burials and cremations are the traditional methods, but Chris points out that there are numerous new options - so-called "green burial" options that are more natural and better for the environment. We also talk about how we can make help survivors cope with body disposition concerns. Chris also warns about unscrupulous practices of the funeral industry.
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