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 #10 - RETHINKING DEATH & DYING
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In the epilogue to his book, Achieving a Good Death, author Chris Palmer summarizes his thoughts on how we might reconceptualize our basic attitudes about the process of dying and death itself.
Death tends to be a taboo subject, but death is a natural and inevitable part of life. It is death that gives meaning to life and makes it precious.
Chris says that his goal is to have a long "healthspan," and then a "Niagra Falls end-of-life." He wants to stay healthy for as long as possible, then experience a short period of deterioration leading to death.
Chris and I discuss how old age can be a time to places less emphasis on doing and becoming and more emphasis on being. We hope this series of podcasts encourages you to become a student of your own end-of-life and helps you to prepare for the kind of death you want to have.
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