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Join death midwife Lisa Cox discuss Atul Gawande’s classic tome Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Modern medicine keeps us alive, extends our lives in aging and terminal illness. But what is the cost to quality of life as we approach the end? In this book, physician Atul Gawandi, drawing on experience with patients and his own family, grapples with the question of how to  improve quality of life, rather than simply adding quantity, right up to death.