[Unedited] Ira Byock with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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🗓️ 7 November 2013

⏱️ 101 minutes

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What if we understand death as a developmental stage — like adolescence or mid-life? Dr. Ira Byock shares how we can understand dying as a time of learning, repair, and completion of our lives. Krista Tippett interviewed Dr. Ira Byock on March 2, 2012. This interview is included in the show “Contemplating Mortality.” Download the produced show at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	This is On Being's Unheard Cuts. I'm Christa Tippett. You're listening to my unedited conversation
0:05.2	with Dr. Ira Biach. He's a professor of medicine at Dartmouth and the former director of
0:10.5	palliative medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire. I spoke with him on
0:15.4	March 2nd, 2012, from the studios of APM in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was in the studios of Dartmouth
0:21.9	College in Hanover, New Hampshire. This interview is included in our show, contemplating mortality.
0:28.1	Download the MP3 of that produced show at onbeing.org.
0:39.1	Dr. Biach? He has just arrived. We're going to wait to get his headphones on here in a second.
0:46.9	Okay. Hello. Hello. Can you hear me? I can hear you well. Hi. It's so good to finally
0:52.9	have you at the other end of the microphone. Thanks, is this Christa? Yes, it is. Oh, wonderful.
0:57.2	Thanks so much for doing this. Oh, I have been sick all week, but I took suit of head this morning,
1:04.8	but I'm going to draw energy from you. Well, I've been really looking forward to doing this. I'm
1:09.6	a fan of your show and you do a great job. It's really an honor to be on and, you know,
1:17.8	yearning to have this conversation. Good. It's been really wonderful to kind of steep myself
1:24.7	in this also to prepare. And I do want to say, I think you know this, but I know you're doing,
1:31.8	I know that there's real political advocacy that grows out of what you care about, and I don't
1:37.0	want to, I don't want to get into that too much. I want to do more of the human stuff. And I
1:41.8	think you also know that. Absolutely. And we may wander in there a little bit later. But
1:48.5	whatever, you know, let's, you know, how it goes. And your new book is coming out very soon,
1:56.4	is that right? Yes. I'm in a face that's probably as close to being pregnant as a guy can get.
2:03.1	Yes. I mean, I've been, this thing's been living within me and growing within me for a long time.
2:08.4	Yeah, that's so truly exciting. I think that I also felt that way about publishing. It's like
2:13.6	giving birth. And then, and then it is like, well, in many ways, don't you think that first of all,
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