Dr. Keith Humphreys

And so I never found it depressing at all.

I did it partly because I had shifted to doing more research and I just missed taking care of patients.

And I thought, you know, the obvious thing would have been, well, why didn't I just do more addiction thing?

I thought, well, I'll just do something different.

And the other part was I was scared of death.

And I don't like being afraid.

I'm a counter phobic person.

I am not brave, but I'm afraid of being afraid.

So I do things that look brave.

And I know about phobia, like the most basic thing is exposure, you know, reduces fear and anxiety.

Running away from things makes them scarier.

So I felt like, all right, I'm scared of death.

So how do I solve that problem?

I'm going to spend as much time around death as I can.

And it's a very intimate experience, you know, you're in people's homes, it's not like when they're sitting in your office, but you know, people's, you know, bedroom could have like, you know, what is that?

Well, that's my, you know, I was a high school baseball player, we won the, you know, the Nationals and, you know, or what's that?

That's my wedding picture.

That's my wife and I 40 years ago, you know, it's very intimate and sweet.

And...

Being the last friend somebody ever makes is an incredible honor.