How Do You Want Your Life To End? with Dr. Su...

This is the free shorter version of a premium episode. Become a paid subscriber to The Unspeakeasy on Substack to access the full version. 👉 https://www.theunspeakablepodcast.com Meghan's guest this time is author, essayist, and friend of the pod Sarah Hepola, who returns to cel ...  Show more

Meghan's guest is Emma Pettit, a former Chronicle of Higher Education reporter who moved into audio this year at Longview, the new independent media outlet founded by veteran podcast creator Andy Mills. Her new three-part series, Street Fight, looks at a conflict playing out on s ...  Show more

Doctors are acculturated and socialized to maintain life. Sometimes at all costs, even the human costs of suffering. The relatively new field of palliative care looks for the way that medicine can embrace and relieve the tension of seeking to preserve life while embracing life’s ...  Show more

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In this special episode of People I (Mostly) Admire, Steve Levitt speaks with the palliative physician B.J. Miller about modern medicine’s goal of “protecting a pulse at all costs.” Is there a better, even beautiful way to think about death and dying?

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What if you started thinking really concretely about small, hard choices? That’s exactly what palliative care physicians do every day. They help us think about what we really want—knowing that we have limited time and limited resources. You’re going to love our guest today, Dr. K ...  Show more