264: We need to talk about death more | Shoshana Ungerleider, M.D.

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🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Shosana Ungerleider, M.D.: “Seeing the end of life as a part of life is, to me, critical for living a good life.” Ungerleider, an internal medicine physician; founder of the End Well Project; and executive producer of the Academy Award-nominated short documentary, End Game, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss why talking about death can help you live a better life, plus: *How to advocate for yourself with palliative care* *How to talk to your loved ones about an end-of-life plan* *How to communicate with doctors when a loved one is near end of life* *Why we need to shift our "death denying culture"* *How COVID will change how we think about end-of-life care* Enjoy this episode sponsored by Healist Naturals! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: [email protected]. And be sure to check out Ungerleider's short documentary, End Game, which you can find at https://www.shoshanaungerleider.com/films. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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0:47.0	Dr. Shishana Ungerlighter is an internist who's passionate about transforming
0:53.6	palliative care. She's the founder of the Enwell project which is focused on
0:58.2	precisely this. She also executive produced the Oscar nominated Netflix documentary titled Endgame,
1:05.3	which was about terminally ill patients meeting medical practitioners seeking to change the perception
1:10.8	around life and death, which is something we're going to dive deeper into today.
1:18.4	Shishana, welcome.
1:20.8	Hello, thanks for having me.
1:23.0	So we have to start with your passion for end of life care.
1:28.6	You've produced a short documentary titled Endgame, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
1:35.2	You speak globally about end of life care and then you're the founder of the Enwall Project.
1:40.6	So suffice to say there's a passion for end of life care. So let's get to the why.
1:48.0	Yeah, so really early on in my medical training. So I'm an internist.
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