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446: Thoughts on the End of Life with Charles Garfield

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Lucas Rockwood

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🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Thoughts on the End of Life
with Charles Garfield
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Death and loss are inevitable, nobody was prepared for this. COVID-19 has taken the lives of millions of people around the world, mostly older people, the wisdom class. On a local level, we all feel it; but from a global perspective, it’s very hard to begin to fathom so much loss in such a short period of time. How do we process this? Where to begin? On this week’s show, we’ll explore the “wisdom years” of life, end of life, and death.

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ABOUT OUR GUEST

Dr. Charles Garfield is a psychologist, professor and lecturer, and the author of thirteen books including Our Wisdom Years and Life's Last Gift: Giving and Receiving Peace During the Dying Time. He has been recognized internationally as the founder of Shanti Project, a widely acclaimed AIDS and cancer service organization.

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0:00.0

If you've listened to the podcast for any length of time, you've probably realized that I'm a very curious person.

0:08.8

I'm interested in so many different things, particularly the complexity and puzzles of life, but one area that

0:16.0

for whatever reason doesn't capture my attention very often is death and dying in the afterlife

0:20.5

and what all of that means.

0:23.0

And this year, that has really changed.

0:25.3

20, obviously with the coronavirus,

0:28.4

there has been death and loss at a scale

0:30.1

that I've never experienced in my life.

0:33.4

As I'm recording here, there's 1.4 million deaths

0:36.6

around the world.

0:37.3

By the time you listen to this, it'll probably

0:39.8

be approaching 2 million deaths.

0:41.4

So millions of people will pass as a result of the

0:45.2

coronavirus in a very short period of time. If you look at the demographics of

0:48.9

those people, they are the wisdom class of our society, the older people, people over the age of 70,

0:55.0

the grandmothers and grandfathers, the great-great-grandfathers and great-great-grandmothers.

1:00.0

These are the people who have an enormous amount of knowledge and maturity and now they're gone.

1:05.8

What do we do with that? How do we think about that? How do we mourn that loss? How do we learn from that experience?

1:10.9

I don't even begin to have answers to those questions but I have a lot of

1:15.0

questions and hopefully my guest on this week's show can give us a little bit of a blueprint

1:20.3

roadmap in terms of moving forward.

1:23.0

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