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Dr. Luyi Kathy Zhang | Deathbed Alchemist
As a hospice and palliative care doctor, Dr. Luyi Kathy Zhang has watched countless patients take their last breath and witnessed the immense clarity that comes with facing death. It’s also the same awareness reported by people who have near-death experiences — people look back on their lives and realize they spent so much time chasing all the things that didn’t matter and so little time on what truly did.
But why should it take a tragedy to jolt us awake? Just think of the suffering we could alleviate if we stopped sleepwalking through life and started creating our own wake-up calls. Through deliberately challenging the routine patterns of our autopilot lives, we have the potential to transform our perspectives, leading us to a life more fully lived, with far fewer regrets at the end.
Dr. Luyi Kathy Zhang is a hospice and palliative care physician. She has comforted thousands of dying patients and held space for their deepest secrets, biggest regrets, and final wishes. She’s made it her mission to share these life-changing insights so people can benefit from deathbed wisdom.
Dr. Zhang also uses her coaching expertise to share practical, neuroscience-based steps to empower people to transform their lives without the pain and suffering of facing one’s mortality. She hopes that death will no longer be feared, but rather embraced as the catalyst for an extraordinary life.
