While many of us may normally keep our thoughts about death at a distance, the Coronavirus pandemic is forcing those thoughts closer. In this episode, I interview Dr. Sunita Puri, the medical director of palliative medicine at Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center at the University of Southern California. She is also the author of a critically acclaimed literary memoir called That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour. Dr. Puri will help us with the language to initiate conversations about end-of-life care with the people we love. You will also hear parts of a conversation I had with my mom about her end-of-life wishes if she were to get seriously sick from the Coronavirus.
Here is Dr. Puri’s New York Times article that I mentioned in the episode: It’s Time to Talk About Death.
Music: “Meeting Emma” and “Sun” by Borrtex
SUBSCRIBE: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher