#32 - Cool, I’m Dead
EPISODE #32
This week’s caller shares a near-death experience that’s as vivid as it is unexpected. After a routine surgery turned critical, she describes finding herself outside her body. Watching, listening, and realizing she wasn’t alone. Family members who had already died appeared beside her, speaking without words, guiding her toward what felt like another realm. It wasn’t frightening. It was calm, even funny at times, grounded in the same dry humor that’s carried her through the rest of life.
She doesn’t claim to have all the answers about what comes next, but she speaks with conviction about what she knows: that family will be there, that there’s something waiting beyond this life, and that death isn’t something to fear. Drawing from her years in hospice and her studies of death across cultures, she shares what that experience taught her about grief, ritual, and the strange comfort that can come from facing the unknown.
Book Recommendation: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
If you’d like to watch this conversation instead of just listening, you can find the video version on YouTube.
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