Nothing stood out about the two-story white house, with its backyard playset, wrap-around porch, and evergreen topiaries. It could have been any other home in this part of semirural Colorado. But on a chilly March afternoon in 2024, Lisa Jacobs found herself at this innocuous setting for a very unusual purpose: to take magic mushrooms as a way to confront her impending death from terminal breast cancer.
"The fear, for me, is disappearing—of being gone," Jacobs said in a new documentary about her experience. Mushrooms, she hoped, would allow her "to have a different relationship with the fear."
