#171: The Dying Experience -- Myths and Answers

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🗓️ 23 January 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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All of us are going to die someday. And we're all going to have loved ones who will die from disease or old age. In fact, some of you listening right now may be dying yourself or watching a loved one die.
But the thing is most modern Westerners aren't prepared for the actual event of dying because we've done such a great job cordoning it off from the rest of life. If you're a young person, you've likely never seen a person die because we typically die in hospitals.
Consequently, there are lot of myths and misconceptions about the dying process. Also a lot of fear- both for the person dying and those watching them die.
But my guest today has made it her career educating people about the dying process and showing people that it's more than a medical event. Her name is Barbara Karnes. She's a hospice nurse and the author of several books about dying and how to bring it back to the natural part of life that it is.
Today on the podcast Barbara and I get into what to expect when you're in the twilight of life and how you can make the experience less scary and even more meaningful.

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0:00.0	I'm going to be playing the song.
0:15.0	Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:18.0	So, death, dying.
0:19.0	It's not a topic we like to talk about in modern-day life, particularly in America where everything
0:24.2	is awesome and everyone will be eternally forever young.
0:28.3	That is a result of our hesitation about talking about death and sort of coordinating off to
0:33.2	the hospitals or the nursing homes.
0:35.1	There's a lot of misconceptions about death in the dying process and a lot of myths and
0:40.0	consequently a lot of fear about it.
0:42.6	From my own experience, I can count on one hand the number of people close to me who have
0:45.8	died and I never actually saw them go to the dying process.
0:49.1	I saw them at the funeral when they've gussied up in the casket.
0:53.4	But this is all going to affect us at one point in our lives.
0:55.9	We're going to die because we get a terminal diagnosis, cancer or something like that.
1:00.7	It's untreatable.
1:02.1	Or we have a parent who is going to be dying of an old age.
1:06.0	Or we're going to die one day, eventually, sometime.
1:08.5	So it's be good to know what exactly is going to happen to us physically, emotionally, mentally
1:15.2	as we get closer and closer to death.
1:17.8	Well, my guest today has spent her life trying to educate people about the dying process,
1:24.0	the dying experience.
1:25.1	Her name is Barbara Karnes.
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