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The Lost Art

How to live well in order to die well

Coronavirus Disease 2019
Light in the Darkness

L.S. Dugdale, MD on December 22, 2020

The world is falling apart. If we are to emerge from December’s darkness with any flicker of hope, we must determine what narrative gives our lives coherence.

The world is falling apart. If we are to emerge from December’s darkness with any flicker of hope, we must determine what narrative gives our lives coherence.

Meditation
Your Prescription: Look at Art

L.S. Dugdale, MD on August 12, 2020

Meditation on a 16th-century masterpiece was once prescribed to the sick. Maybe it’s time to bring this practice into the present.

Meditation on a 16th-century masterpiece was once prescribed to the sick. Maybe it’s time to bring this practice into the present.

Spirituality
The Lost Art of Dying

L.S. Dugdale, MD on July 16, 2020

Want to know how to think about COVID mortality? Try a technique more than 600 years old.

Want to know how to think about COVID mortality? Try a technique more than 600 years old.

Beauty
From Sirens to Song

L.S. Dugdale, MD on July 9, 2020

As we face our own mortality, art has the power to rescue truth and beauty from the catastrophe of history.

As we face our own mortality, art has the power to rescue truth and beauty from the catastrophe of history.