“By facing mortality, it seems to inform how you live. So, the secret is that facing death has a lot to do with living well…”

On providing palliative care in “Brief But Spectacular: BJ Miller—Palliative Care Specialist” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/brief/194874/bj-miller in PBS

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