When You Die

Feb 02 2025 48 ep. 36 mins 20
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Sometimes funny, sometimes emotional, always interesting and informative. If it has to do with death and dying we're talking about it. Podcasts, documentaries, resources. www.WhenYouDie.org

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Nurse Penny Smith: The Transformative Power of Hospice Care

Feb 02 2025 42 mins  
Social media star Nurse Penny Smith talks about her new book Influencing Death, her transformation from addiction to celebrated hospice nurse, the state of hospice, and so much more.

Kathryn Mannix, MD: Stories to Help Us Understand Death

Feb 02 2025 54 mins  
Palliative care pioneer, and passionate death educator Dr Cathryn Mannix shares beautiful stories from her decades of practice at the bedside. Not to be missed!

Gabby Jimenez, RN: Grief, Ritual, and End-of-Life Care

Jan 07 2025 42 mins  
While grief is universal, it is also personal and unique to each to each of us. Gabby Jimenez is a hospice nurse, and end-of-life doula, and educator who uses her experience to improve end-of-life care and support grief. She talks about the need to address unresolved grief, otherwise it can be come staked, one experience after another like a pancake; the role of ritual and ceremony

Lisa Pahl: Dealing with Death.. With a game of cards

Jul 29 2024 29 mins  
Death is in the cards, so why not deal yourself a hand and have a laugh? That's what the Death Deck is about. Created by Lisa Pahl and her business partner Lori LoCicero, The Death Deck offers a creative way to have those difficult conversations. As a Hospice and Emergency Medicine Social Worker, Lisa saw first hand how people avoid the topic of death, even those who work in en

Karen Wyatt, MD: 7 Lessons From The Dying

Jul 05 2024 41 mins  
Hospice physician, Dr. Karen Wyatt has been widely recognized for her compassionate presence with patients and her deep understanding of the spiritual aspect of health, illness and dying. In this episode, Johanna Lunn talks with Hospice physician Dr Karen Wyatt about Seven Lessons for the Living from the Dying, a beautiful book about Dr Wyatt's entre into hospice work after her

Carol Reid: Grieving Before Death

Mar 13 2024 33 mins  
Carol Reid and her husband were looking forward to spending their retirement together. But when Jim was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia , Carol found that although she had worked as a palliative care nurse, it did not prepare her to deal with the gradual loss of her own loved one.

Michael Brooke: Life Stories Are a Gift for the Future

Feb 02 2024 30 mins  
Michael Brooke is a skateboarding historian and publisher who worked as an Assistant Funeral Director during the Covid pandemic. These experiences inspired his recent book Endless Wave: Skateboarding, Death and Spirituality and the creation of Time for My Story which works with individuals to record stories and memories of their life though words and pictures. The result is a beaut

Time to Pause: A Special 3 part podcast looking at innovative leadership in the end-of-life-space Part 3- Briana Simmons

Nov 07 2023 26 mins  
Briana Simmons is a lifecycle facilitator for black and LGBTQIA+ communities. She is also the founder of Unearthing Tradition, and works to reclaim dignified life cycles, and offering lifecycle support that creates unapologetic healing spaces for black folks.

Nefertiti Moor: Time to Pause Participant 2 of 3 Parts Dearly Bereaved, End-of-Life Support

Oct 23 2023 30 mins  
When Nefertiti Moor first began her work in death care, she had originally planned to focus on being a Death Doula. But within her community she saw a need for so much more. It was because of this need that Nefertiti founded Dearly Bereaved, where she can help people in many aspects, from green burial support, grief support and home funeral guiding. In doing so, she has been able t

Alica Forneret: Supporting Grief in the Workplace & Beyond

Sep 19 2023 30 mins  
Alica Forneret's work focuses on how we can support each other through death-related loss and the grief sparked by, and before, end-of-life experiences. She is the Executive Director of PAUSE which supports Communities of Color through grief and end of life by hosting a mentorship/incubator program for individuals, business owners, artists, and concept creators working in the e