Death By Design

Death By Design

By Kimberly Paul
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Death By Design episodes

  • Andrew Eisen, Screenwriter
    Today with talk with Andrew Eisen.  He is a young millennial with a message about end of life that just happens to be delivered as a screenplay.  The movie, Youth In Oregon.

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    23 min
  • Dr. David Grube

    Today we talk with Dr. David Grube.  He’s a physician, a teacher and an advocate for medical aid in dying, better known as Death with Dignity or physician assisted suicide. Today, we will learn more about this controversial subject.



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    26 min
  • Ben Lee, Musician and End-Of-Life Doula

    Today we talk with Ben Lee.  He’s a musician, a producer, a storyteller and a death doula.  We learn from him what lead him from a childhood music star to helping those facing end of life.



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    31 min
  • Dr. BJ Miller

    Dr. BJ Miller is a longtime hospice & palliative medicine physician and educator. He’s been onfaculty at his alma mater, UCSF, since 2007 and has worked in all settings of care: hospital, clinic, residential facility, and home. BJ’s career has been dedicated to moving healthcare towards a human centered approach, on a policy as well as a personal level. Led by his own experiences as a patient, BJ advocates for the roles of our senses, community and presence in designing a better ending. His interests are in working across disciplines to affect broad-based culture change, cultivating a civic model for aging and dying and furthering the message that suffering, illness, and dying are fundamental and intrinsic aspects of life.

    He has given over 100 talks nationally, and internationally, on the topics of death, dying, palliative care and the intersection of healthcare with design. His 2015 TED Talk: “Not Whether But How” (aka “What Matters Most at the End of Life”), has been viewed over 11 million times

    been the subject of multiple interviews and podcasts, including Oprah Winfrey, PBS, The New York Times, The California Sunday Magazine, GOOP, Krista Tippett, Tim Ferriss and the TED Radio Hour.


    Recently, BJ founded Mettle Health.


    Mettle Health provides personalized, holistic consultations for any patient or caregiver who needs help navigating the practical, emotional and existential issues that come with serious illness and disability. We are the first patient- and caregiver-centric palliative care delivery system accessible to everyone, irrespective of geography, without a doctor’s referral. Mettle Health is comprised of

    palliative care clinicians, but operates outside of the traditional medical system; making it a social service staffed by medical professionals. Patients and caregivers dealing with serious or chronic illness should be able to count on sound

    information and enough emotional support to feel confident in the choices they make, whatever

    their circumstances; Mettle Health will make that possible.


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    31 min
  • Dr. Dawn Gross
    Today we talk with Dawn Gross.  She’s a scientist with a heart, a writer with passion, and a physician who found her calling in the eyes of her dying father.

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    42 min
  • Lorraine Perry, Grief Worker

    Today we talk with Lorraine Perry.  She helps children cope with loss.  How we talk about death with children can have a lasting effect on their lives. Today, we learn how to talk about death on a child’s level.



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    28 min
  • Katrina Spade

    Today we talk with Katrina Spade.  She is an architect with a passion to redesign death care.  Today we learn about the Urban Death Project.



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    31 min
  • Robin Romm, Writer & Author
    The Mercy Papers is a book that has moved me to my core.  The raw truth of learning about your mother’s diagnosis, watching her struggle with a serious illness for years, and experiencing the death of the most important person in your life seems too much for anyone to bear.  Robin Romm’s words haunt me, bring me to tears, but inspire me.

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    29 min
  • Brenda McDonald

    Today we talk with Brenda McDonald.   She’s a daughter that became the primary caregiver of her mother. Today, we speak with Brenda about love, loss and grief and how hospice care played a role in a beautiful end of life. 



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    31 min

About Death By Design

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Kimberly C. Paul wants to radically change the way people face end of life, and she’s using her extensive experience as a storyteller to do just that. From the set of Saturday Night Live in New York…