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

Totally.

I mean, no is the answer.

I mean, I hear you about your friend and it really is like to each his own.

Like people really have different ways of coping.

It is a weird time to die in America in history because like that sort of like battle idea, like death is very medicalized and like very sort of like Western medicalized right now here.

And I think there's like a lot of reasons for that.

But the battle metaphor is one of them.

And another one is like, we have all of this technology available that is like, you know, built for emergencies, but is getting offered to people who are like 90, you know, with like failing organs.

Um, I think there's so much taboo around talking about death and dying and meanwhile, also so much hunger to like crack it open and think about it.

I think like suffering and dying are really hidden, like from view the way that they haven't been across history for people.

It's like really interesting to be like, Oh, what's happening over there?

Like, how are we supposed to talk about it?

So I think there's sort of this like cultural force to like intervene to like, you know, anyone who's been through like a serious illness with someone has seen how much sort of like momentum there is toward like aggressive medical care.

I think of it when you were saying like, how do you choose whether to like, you know, am I giving up?

Am I beating it?

I guess in my mind, I sort of think of it as like a thing is happening, like a thing is happening.

It's like now there is Parkinson's here or now this person has metastatic cancer and like it's going to play out the way it's going to play out.

And so like how do you like provide health care that's going to make that the best possible, like extend life as long as possible, extend functionality like as long as possible, help people do the things that they want to do that are important to them.

But there is some like building there.

Of like, you can sort of choose healthcare within that to kind of like design your healthcare or like make your choices around what's important to you.

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