Dr. Lucy Kalanithi

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On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Lucy Kalanithi: What Loss Can Teach Us About Living (The Perspective Shift That Changes Everything) · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

And he wrote like, this book is unforgettable or this book is something, it is crackling with life.

And I just remember thinking like, oh, how amazing to be crackling with life when you're dying.

And I think the same thing is true with aging.

The same thing is true with like disability or patient hood.

It's like, there's this idea that like,

You know, something about like a human identity is taken from you when you're aging.

But it's like some of my favorite people are little old ladies who are so giggly and hilarious and like not afraid of anything, you know?

And like I used to think like little old lady and now I think like, gosh, like Spitfire who like knows everything and like, you know, nothing shocks her.

And so I think the thing it taught me also as a doctor, you know, like just how totally human like

everyone is you know and i think when you're at work as a doctor there's so much dehumanization it's like you're at work you're rushing around you're hungry you have to go to the bathroom you have to get to the or and so it's like all of the families like sleeping on the sofas outside the icu are sort of the furniture like they're the furniture at work because you're doing your job but also it's like you're constantly toggling between like this is the worst day of this person's life

And I have 36 minutes with them.

And then in answer to your question for real about like what can dying teach us about being alive and living, dying is like the one of the most human things we do.

It's like it's too big for any model.

It's too big for a medical model.

It's too big for like a lot of religious models.

It's not a medical event.

It's like a human thing.

Frank Ostaseski, he's like a Buddhist teacher who founded Zen Hospice in San Francisco.

So gorgeous.

He's so beautiful.

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