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

So like instead of saying like you have six months to live because like that's the median in the studies, you say like it's likely a few months to a few years.

Right.

Which is like broader, but more accurate, really.

And that's like enough information for someone to decide, like, do they want to have a baby during this illness or not, you know?

And then similarly, another way that we've been trained to tell people that we're training our students to tell people is a model where you say you share the best case, the worst case and the most likely case.

And actually people can have a lot, people get a lot of information from that where they can decide like how much risk do I want to take to aim for the best, to prepare for the worst.

And then they're kind of like, well, I'm still allowing space for the best.

And in the meantime, I'll make sure my family knows what I want when I'm gone.

So like, I think like doctors are being taught to allow just like space, space, space, space, and more like

accuracy yeah yeah yeah that's really helpful to hear it's helpful to hear how humans process yeah it's also like not just one conversation like of course the first time you hear the news like then you don't hear anything else right then you have to hear it again you know you heard from different people but yes it needs to change and it is changing thank goodness i think right now in the world we're talking a lot about aging well yeah what's your sense of what it means to die well

I think that living well is the same.

I think like the way to not be afraid of dying is to feel that you've had a meaningful life.

That's what I think.

I think that's what ended up being true for Paul.

And I'll just tell you like something beautiful that like Paul felt that I hope I feel too, because I also think this sort of encompasses like a good death experience.

is like similarly, if you're lucky enough to like have the tools to like build a life that you felt is meaningful, I think Paul ended up feeling, like not to sound cheesy, but I love this.

He ended up feeling, I'm not dying feeling that I'm losing everything.

I'm dying feeling that I have everything, which I think is so cool, you know?

So I don't know, hasn't happened to me yet.

So it'll be a surprise.

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