Last Edited: March 28, 2023

Wild with Sarah Wilson: STEPHEN JENKINSON: How to die well

Originally published: March 28, 2023

INTERVIEW

Interview Published on March 28, 2023

Stephen’s wild idea is that we must learn to die well…so that we can live well. This is a challenging and poetic conversation. We cover euthanasia (it’s death-phobic), elderhood (current boomers have failed at it) and not being “too late” to work it all out.

Stephen reads from his book A Generation’s Worth and we reference his recent books Die Wise and Reckoning

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