We're Living Longer. Here's How to Die Better.

Palliative care and hospice physician Dr. BJ Miller explains how honest conversations about death can help us live -- and die -- on our own terms.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

BJ Miller's company Mettle Health — support for illness, grief and dying (mettlehealth.com)

BJ Miller’s book, A Beginner’s Guide to the End (simonandschuster.com/books/A-Beginners-Guide-t…)

Five Wishes — a commonly used advanced directive (fivewishes.org)

MyDirectives — an online advance-directive storage (mydirectives.com)

Empathy — digital estate-planning tools and more (empathy.com/platform/estate-planning)

Jennifer Lai and Leying Tang produced this episode. Video production by Jilanne Doom, with assistance from Jasmine Brooks and Andrew Quimby. Andrea Kane is the medical writer. Dan Dzula is the technical director, and Dan Bloom is the showrunner. Ben Tinker is vice president of news at CNN, and Zach Goldbaum is senior director of podcasts at CNN.

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