As someone who's seen a lot of people die a lot of different ways and suffer a lot of different ways, would you ever consider medical assistance in death?

Yes.

Yes.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Just Getting Good, our show where I talk to women over 50 about life, love, money, divorce, kids, not having kids, and anything else they want to talk about.

Today we're doing something a little bit different. My guest, Eileen, is actually a professor

of geriatric and palliative medicine. So although we're going to talk a little bit about her

actual life, her marriage, her finances, we're mostly going to talk about aging itself,

not just the process of getting older,

but what it means to live a good life as we age, what we should be doing now, what we should

be thinking about, and also death and dying, bummer as it may be.

Death is as much a part of life as life is a part of death.

We all have to sort of get acquainted with the subject, think about that in real terms,

and get over our anxiety and our

desire to avoid ever thinking of ourselves as that older person. As we like to say, when it

comes to things like saving for retirement, we don't want to envision ourselves as a person who

will one day be retired and want that money, but barring a catastrophe, we will be. So better

to start thinking about it now. Something that we talk about

a lot on this channel is the importance of taking your finances seriously, especially when you

are younger and have more time to plan for them. Almost every woman that I've spoken to on this

show so far has either said their best advice is to start taking your finances seriously younger,

or their

regret is that they wish they had made different choices when they were younger, because when you

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