Flourish As You Age: THRIVING IN TIMES OF STRUGGLE
What does it mean to flourish when the systems we depend on are under strain?
Flourish in Times of Struggle is a new podcast series for people who want to move beyond personal resilience and grapple with the deeper structures that shape our lives. In this opening episode, Michael C. Patterson introduces the series’ focus on systems, legitimacy, and collective action—and invites listeners to think together about how healthier, more democratic forms of governance might emerge.
Earlier Flourish As You Age podcasts focused more on personal change and development to promote brain health and mental management.
Flourish As You Age: THRIVING IN TIMES OF STRUGGLE
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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