Good Living in Dying

The last-teenth episode. Discussed: My recent health symptoms, catastrophizing the implications, a co-worker's recent battle with a brain tumor, working as a crisis-line counselor, exploring ambivalence around the idea death and dying, Dr. Pimple Popper and the power of normalizing people's pain, death as a call to meaning-making in Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich," confronting my own cantankerousness at a screening of the Mr. Rogers biopic "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood," losing the bloom of youth, and starting a new semester of school. Music: "Adventure" by Disasterpeace.