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In the second hour of its special live remote broadcast from California Pacific Medical Center's Health and Healing Library, the show concludes with an examination of social, historical, cultural and philosophical perspectives on death and dying. Host: Michael Krasny Guests:
Ira Byock, director of palliative medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation national grant program
Sandy Chen Stokes, clinical nurse specialist for El Dorado County Public Health and chair of the Chinese-American Coalition for Compassionate Care
Sharon Kaufman, professor of medical anthropology at UCSF with the Institute for Health and Aging
Steve Pantilat, professor and physician at the palliative care program at UCSF
Tim Patriarca, executive director of Maitri AIDS Hospice
William Stewart, medical director for the Institute for Health and Healing at California Pacific Medical Center