Writer and producer Katie Engelhart, author of the new book “The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die,” speaks with us about the underground euthanasia movement, the differing perspectives on assisted suicide in countries around the world, and the problems with the media’s portrayal of the elderly.
Oct 2023
Sarah Lohman on Creating a More Affordable, Healthful, and Moral Food System
The culinary historian Sarah Lohman, author of the new book “Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods,” talks about the importance of engaging with local foodways, why “the idea that eating McDonald’s is universally bad is woefully unaware of class and racial conflicts,” and ... Show More
24m 57s
Apr 2025
Special: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Is Dying
<p>From October 9, 1997: Oprah talks with author and psychiatrist Elisabeth Kubler-Ross about her autobiography, Wheel of Life. A pioneer in death and dying studies, Elisabeth shares the greatest lessons she’s learned from those who are dying, how she is welcoming death at the en ... Show More
31m 31s
Jan 2025
Erica Borgstrom and Renske Visser, "Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement" (Routledge, 2024)
Critical Approaches to Death, Dying and Bereavement (Routledge, 2025) by Professor Erica Borgstrom & Dr. Renske Visser is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of dea ... Show More
56m 34s
Apr 2025
The power and the pitfalls of narrative | Matthew Beaumont, Ruth Padel, and Theodore Dalrymple
<p><strong>Lost in stories</strong></p><p>Is life a story or a sequence of events?</p><p>Our narratives enable us to make sense of the complex, often confusing, world that we live in. And yet there is a risk that rather than helping us to truly understand this world, narratives c ... Show More
42m 34s
May 2018
Dans la vie de Gabriela, accompagnatrice de suicide assisté
Gabriela, quadragénaire, est accompagnatrice au sein de l'association pour le suicide assisté Exit. Elle a fait le choix de mettre sa vie au service de la mort de ceux qui demandent à partir. Dans cet épisode, elle nous parle de ses propres deuils, de bienveillance, et de l'au-de ... Show More
19m 36s
<p>Ellen Wiebe is a physician who helps seriously ill patients end their lives in Canada, where assisted suicide is legal. Is death a human right?</p><p> </p><ul><li><strong>SOURCES: </strong><ul><li><a href="https://news.ubc.ca/expert/ellen-wiebe/">Ellen Wiebe</a>, clinical prof ... Show More
