Four Things to Say When Someone is Dying
Ending Life Well Podcast
 

Recorded April 23, 2024, Otago Community, New Zealand. Four simple phrases: “Please forgive me,” “I forgive you,” “Thank you,” and “I love you” — carry enormous power to mend and nurture our relationships and inner lives.  In this conversation with Dr. Ira Byock  he explains how we can practice these phrases in our day to day lives and the impact they can have.

Why Wait?
You're Going To Die Podcast

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Recorded April 25, 2024. An interview with Ira Byock hosted by Ned Buskirk.

Medical Aid in Dying 
The Disagreement Podcast

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Recorded May 21, 2024. An interview with Ira Byock and Kim Callinan, hosted by Catherine Cushenberry. This episodes explores a wide range of important questions on medical aid in dying:
 

• How broken is end-of-life care in America? And how should we fix it? 

• What are the potential risks and benefits of implementing medical aid in dying? 

• How should we be thinking about death, dying, and the end-of-life for our loved ones? 

Lessons on Mortality and Dying Well
The Doctor's Art Podcast

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Recorded May 3, 2022. In this episode, Dr. Byock joins us to discuss how palliative medicine developed into what it is today, how viewing death as a normal part of human living can allow patients to create meaning at the end of life, and what all clinicians can learn from palliative care about good doctoring.o keep taking medication every day to have the effect. You experience something so profound, that it changes your whole concept of who you are.

Contemplating Mortality
Onbeing with Krista Tippett

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Recorded April 26, 2012. Dr. Ira Byock is a leading figure in palliative care and hospice in the United States. He says we lose sight of ‘the remarkable value’ of the time of life we call dying. What if we understand death as a developmental stage — like adolescence or mid-life? Dr. Ira Byock is a leading figure in palliative care and hospice in the United States. He says we lose sight of “the remarkable value” of the time of life we call dying if we forget that it’s always a personal and human event, and not just a medical one. From his place on this medical frontier, he shares how we can understand dying as a time of learning, repair, and completion of our lives.

'Best Care': We Make Death Harder Than It Has To Be
Talk of the Nation with Neil Conan on NPR
 

Recorded March 26, 2012. "We have a disease-treatment system more than a health care system these days," Byock tells NPR's Neal Conan. "That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's not enough. We have to begin to care well for people who are living with these diseases, not simply the physiology and pathology itself."