You don’t need another reminder that time is limited — but you might need a reminder to act like it. This week’s Saturday Contemplation invites you to pause, reflect, and consider what it means to live like your time truly matters.

This week’s contemplation explores how release can become a daily practice — not something we fear, but something we return to with trust. By softening our grip on what was, we make space for what’s still unfolding.

How does culture shape the way we grieve? An anonymous caller from Australia — with deep Colombian roots — reflects on humor, community, and the different ways we hold loss, revealing how love and connection keep us alive even after death.

You don’t need another reminder that time is limited — but you might need a reminder to act like it. This week’s Saturday Contemplation invites you to pause, reflect, and consider what it means to live like your time truly matters.

This week’s caller lives with chronic illness and a lifelong awareness of death — yet what he brings to the conversation isn’t fear, but gratitude. We talk about faith without certainty, the beauty of small moments, and the possibility that God exists not beyond us, but between us.

If you knew you only had one year left to live, what would you do differently? This week’s Saturday Contemplation — available exclusively to WWDT+ members — explores what truly matters when time feels finite.

During a medical crisis, this week’s caller found herself outside her body, greeted by family who had already died, and facing a threshold she was told not to cross. Blending humor and honesty, she shares what that experience taught her about death — and the unexpected peace she found there.

The very first Saturday Contemplation reflects on a simple but powerful truth: each breath brings us closer to death. This guided meditation invites you to sit with impermanence and discover the preciousness of every breath.

This special anniversary episode marks one year of When We Die Talks. Instead of an anonymous call, I take time to pause and reflect on what this past year has brought—thirty conversations that have reshaped the way I think about death, grief, connection, and even my own beliefs. I share the lessons I’ve learned from both the calls and the process of creating this podcast, introduce the new Saturday Contemplations, and talk honestly about what the future might hold. Most of all, I want to say thank you—for listening, sharing, and being part of this space where we can talk about what so many avoid.

Episode #30 marks the first international call for the podcast. Our Canadian caller shares a wide-ranging conversation about science, spirituality, and culture—touching on everything from the brain’s mysteries at death to an extraordinary coma story where days felt like decades. At its heart is the idea that each of us is a universe in and of ourselves.

This anonymous caller mixes humor with raw honesty as they share their experience living with chronic illness, nearly dying from blood clots, and stepping away from the church they grew up in. What they found instead was comfort in the natural world — in the ways plants, animals, and energy all recycle and renew. The conversation moves from jokes about reincarnating as a cactus to deeply personal reflections on faith, identity, and resilience. It’s a mix of laughter, honesty, and perspective you won’t forget.

In this anonymous call, a close friend joins me to explore everything from heart-shaped signs left by her grandmother to the daunting reality of eternity. Our conversation moves between the intimate and the infinite. Touching on mortality, time, space, nothingness, and the strange mix of fear and wonder that comes with contemplating what happens when we die.

An anonymous caller reflects on her father’s passing, the strange signs that followed, and how those moments restored her faith in an afterlife. We explore grief as a state of being, the puzzle piece that can never be replaced, and the possibility that ego and consciousness transform when life comes to an end.

What if you never died? In this anonymous call, our guest imagines immortality, jokes about sexy vampires, and reflects on what it means to “walk people home.”

In this call, our caller shares the story of losing her brother, the surreal moments of his dying process, and the humor and signs that carried her through. From freezer chicken to promises in the sky, it’s a conversation about grief, ritual, and why planning for death matters.