Episode 25: Summer Movies, On Death and Dying, Ask OTC, Unchained Melodies: Funeral Music, and Preparing for Death
On this week’s episode, Steel and Dave are joined by Katie, Dave’s friend and fellow nurse. Together, the trio discusses favorite summer blockbusters from their adolescence, discuss their views on death, modern medicine, and what constitutes a good death, answer listener questions (in which Dave confesses his most embarrassing medical secret) and endure another of Katie’s lightning round of questions. They end the episode with great music from Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Silver Jews, Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, Neil Diamond, The Weather Girls, and Lisa Hannigan, and some deep wisdom from the Renaissance humanist Desiderius Erasmus’ treatise “Preparing for Death”.
Links
Summer Movies
- In God’s Hands [Steel] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzenjcClUBU
- The Goonies [Katie] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFEfHCJG4G4
- Star Wars: The Phantom Menace [Dave] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD7bpG-zDJQ
On Death and Dying
- Atul Gawande’s book Being Mortal
- How doctors would prefer to die
- Ken Murray on “futile caree”
- Krull https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndpV6qfQJVw
Unchained Melodies
Bonnie “Prince” Billy — I See A Darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAriDxTeed8 Version Two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iV4NwSbscg
Silver Jews — Random Rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKl4Wpu75W0
Israel Kamakawiwo’ole — Somewhere Over the Rainbow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w\_DKWlrA24k
Neil Diamond — Hell Yeah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E\_LOZGJGkxw
The Weather Girls — It’s Raining Men
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5aZJBLAu1E
Lisa Hannigan — Safe Travels, Don’t Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4-GIkuWT9g
Book Wisdom
Today’s passage came from Desiderius Erasmus’ classic treatise De Praeparatione ad Mortem [Preparing for Death].