Upaya Zen Center founder and end-of-life-care pioneer Roshi Joan Halifax, in conversation with Raghu Markus, frames death work as an exercise in compassion rather than crisis management. The episode threads her longstanding friendship with Ram Dass, the small-self grip a dying person typically has to let go of, and the Buddhist story of the Four Sights as a practical curriculum for facing old age, sickness and death without flinching.