“The mid-life crisis is when we think that work is what gives meaning to our lives.”

— Gian Domenico Borasio

"It's not about dying", TEDxCHUV address (13 November 2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5WYNf1td-4

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physician, specialist of palliative medicine 1962

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