“What we have found is that technologies are not prolonging human life. They are really just prolonging human death.” – Ann Neumann

Ann Neumann (@otherspoon) is a visiting scholar at the NYU Center for Religion and Media and author of the book, The Good Death.

In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Ann discuss what got her involved in the topic of death and dying (5:00); end-of-life care (13:00); confronting the finality of death, and the parallels between death and travel (22:00); hospice, and dignity in death (39:00); the evolving definition of death and associated medical logistics (44:00); and how we address death as a society (56:00).

For more from Ann, check out her author website.

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The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel’s 2017 album Lumber.

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