Listening from AZ. Psychedelics should qualify for “right to try”. Especially in terminal patients and their loved ones.
Michael Pollan:
“Prozac doesn’t help when you’re confronting your mortality. But here we have something that occasions an experience in people — a mystical experience — that somehow makes it easier to let go. And I think some of it has to do with the fact that you do experience the “extinction” of yourself and it’s kind of a rehearsal for death. And I think that may be part of what helps people, that they expand their sense of what is your self-interest and your self-interest is something larger than what is contained by your skin. And when you have that recognition, I think dying becomes a little easier. …“