Magnificent Midlife

Dr Kathryn Mannix has devoted her life to the palliative care of the dying. In this episode, she talked about death, the process of it and how we can all prepare better for it. She also wrote a remarkable book called With The End In Mind which everyone should read! It was such a pleasure to talk to her about death! This is a much longer interview than usual but I thought the topic deserved it. Kathryn came back on the podcast to talk about her second book, Listen and you can listen to that episode here. We talk about: - Why Kathryn was inspired to write her book, With The End In Mind - Opening up conversations about death - How our experience of death is much improved by honest communication - Denial is one way of coping which works for some people but isn’t ideal - Thinking about accommodating immobile older relatives - Sometimes being practical is better than sacrifice when it comes to caring - What normal dying actually looks and feels like – it is very gentle - Why it’s important for people to understand