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Watch R&E’s preview of an interview with best-selling author and surgeon Atul Gawande about aging, dying, end-of-life care, and the limits of medicine—all themes in his latest book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, also featured on FRONTLINE. The book includes the story of his father’s final illness and death and his family’s journey to the Ganges to spread his father’s ashes. 

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Keywords: aging, dying, end of life, grief, on being mortal, medicine and what matters in the end