Welcome guys to episode 54 of Behind the Show podcast.

My name's James Gearing.

And this week I wanted to discuss a topic that I really, really wanted to delve into for a while.

And this particular guest was the person I wanted to talk to about it.

So the topic is death.

As far as the end of life in an accident like we see as far as a healthy end of life

and then end of life in a hospice or palliative care setting so dr bj miller i was first exposed to him

listening to him on the tim ferris podcast he also did did a TED talk, which absolutely blew me away.

And at the time, when I listened to the interview, he was working with the Zen Hospice Project.

The premise was that the patients in the hospice had a homely environment and every single day

were given the fullest day of their life

even though they were counting down and contrasting that obviously to the sterile hospital

environment that many patients do pass away in so i really want to delve in that side i had

had nursed my grandfather in hospice. I'd seen several fellow firefighters

recently in hospice care before they passed away. So that was an area I wanted to delve in.

And then also something that we talked about because he wasn't exposed too much to what we do

is how do you apply palliative care in the pre-hospital setting?

You know, how can we make our patients more comfortable?

How can we interact with the family after we lose a patient?

So there were so many areas I want to talk about,

and this was an absolutely fantastic conversation.

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