Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forrest Hanson.

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The median life expectancy for a man living in the United States, somebody just like me,

is roughly 80 years.

That works out to 960 months, 4,160 weeks, or about 29,000 days.

I'm sneaking up on 35 years old, which means on average I've got about 45 years or 540

months left.

When you're in the middle of them, it's easy for the days to blur together.

But putting the time that we have left into simple numbers can be both a bit overwhelming

and remarkably clarifying, our time's limited, and how we use it is up to us.

On today's episode, we're going to be talking about coming to terms with death and dying,

the reality of our limited time, and how we can perhaps use that knowledge to refine

our focus and live a more fulfilling life.

To help us do that, I'm joined as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick as a clinical psychologist,

best-selling author, and he's also my dad, so dad, how are you doing today?

I'm doing very well today for us, and I'm extremely interested in this topic.

Yeah, this was one that you put out there, as a potential one to do, so I'm looking

forward to some of your takes on it.

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