#297 — Preparing for the End
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Waking Up with Sam Harris
4.6 • 29.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Sam Harris speaks with BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger about preparing for death. They discuss the difference between palliative care and hospice, the tension between getting the most out of life and not clinging to experience, planning for death while still healthy, the importance of an advance directive, navigating the healthcare system, pain control at the end of life, assisted suicide, psychedelic therapy for end-of-life anxiety, and other topics.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. |
| 0:09.1 | This is Sam Harris. |
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| 0:41.3 | Okay, well, this week is the fourth anniversary over at waking up. |
| 0:52.0 | And I wanted to share a bit more about why I've decided to put so much attention over |
| 0:56.6 | there and to build the app in the first place. |
| 1:00.0 | Seems to me that many of you in the Making Sense audience don't necessarily understand |
| 1:03.8 | what I'm doing over there. |
| 1:06.3 | When I was a teenager, after two people very close to me died, I became interested in certain |
| 1:14.7 | esoteric questions like what is the nature of consciousness and what is itself and what's |
| 1:22.7 | the connection between the human mind and reality in the first place? |
| 1:26.9 | How is it possible to understand reality? |
| 1:30.2 | And how should our answers to such questions inform how we live? |
| 1:34.8 | Now, these topics didn't just interest me philosophically or scientifically. |
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