The extraordinary Alua Arthur, everyone — death doula, teacher, TED talk giver, recovering attorney, and bestselling author of BRIEFLY PERFECTLY HUMAN: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End. The technology tried to keep us apart with two false starts and some wifi issues, but we persevered!

Alua may be more responsible than anyone else in America for trying to get us comfortable with one of the last taboo subjects in our culture: our own deaths. It is her mission to get us to accept this one big, inevitable commonality, so that we can start living — authentically, joyfully, and with less fear.

BRIEFLY PERFECTLY HUMAN is part memoir, part guide for supporting people at the end of their lives, and part motivational instruction manual for life. It is sharp, beautifully written, deeply funny, lively. It is nothing short of an immense public service.

If you haven’t yet read BRIEFLY PERFECTLY HUMAN, please don’t deny yourself this life-changing book. Thank you, Alua, for a conversation I will cherish for a long time to come!

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