Aging Audio & Video

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher, or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching....

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium.

This documentary introduces us to Stephen Jenkinson, once the leader of a palliative care counselling team at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.

National Geographic writer and explorer Dan Buettner studies the world's longest-lived peoples, distilling their secrets into a single plan for health and long life.

There is one thing I can be sure of: I am going to die. But what am I to make of that fact? This course will examine a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality.

If you only had a year to live, what would you do? In his work with the dying, author Stephen Levine...

Christina Economos discusses Living in the Balance: Nutrition and Physical Activity for a Lifetime as part of the Healing and Healthy Aging: Nurture and Nature track at the 2007 Chautauqua Institution Summer Program.

Scott Eberle and Stan Grof discuss Eberle's The Final Crossing and Grof's The Ultimate Journey.

Cambridge researcher Aubrey de Grey argues that aging is merely a disease -- and a curable one at that. Humans age in seven basic ways, he says, all of which can be averted.

For centuries, Christians have been tormented by one question above all: If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?