A Matter of Life and Death

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Dr Laurie HATES thinking about her own death. It's scary, creepy and morbid, right? Wrong. Thinking about our finite lives can makes us better, happier people. The shadow of death makes us behave more kindly towards others, and can motivate us both to enjoy the little joys of life and seek out greater fulfilment in our careers and in our relationships.

But you need to look death square in the face - and that's not easy for a thanatophobe like Dr Laurie. To help her, she enlists psychologist Jodi Wellman (author of You Only Die Once: How to Make It to the End with No Regrets) and death doula Alua Arthur (author of Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End).

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0:36.0	The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration in the United States.
0:41.0	Since it was established in 1861, there have been 3,517 people awarded with the medal.
0:48.0	I'm Malcolm Gladwell, and our new podcast from Pushkin Industries and I- Heart Media is about those heroes. What they did,
0:56.0	what it meant, and what their stories tell us about the nature of courage and sacrifice.
1:02.8	Listen to Medal of Honor stories of courage,
1:05.8	wherever you get your podcasts. Pushkin.
1:18.0	The destination is on your right.
1:21.0	The destination is on your right.
1:23.0	Summerville Public Library, East Branch.
1:26.0	Arrived.
1:27.0	I'm headed to my local library, but not to check out a book.
1:30.0	I'm on a quest.
1:32.0	A quest that has obsessed philosophers, poets, and mystics for ages.
1:36.0	I'm on a quest to confront death.
1:39.0	Do you know where the death cafe is happening?
1:42.0	Right over there. I'm about to attend what's known as a death cafe.
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