Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of the Terry Cole show.

And I want to start with a question.

How are you in regards to death and dying?

What is your relationship?

Are you good at it?

Have you talked about it?

I don't mean dying, obviously, because if you're listening to this, you are still on this earth.

But I mean, in relation to other people, that's what this episode is all about, how to handle

when someone you love is dying.

And I'm talking about it now because one of my best friends died on January 17, 2025. Her name is Linda.

We've been friends for two and a half decades. And it really was super confronting. But I've been

dealing with her dying for the past year. But then it got, you know, then it got acute the three weeks before she passed.

And I just realized that with the amount of therapy that I've had, with all the work that I've

done in my life, I still needed support and resources.

I still needed other people who were more expert at death and dying than me.

So I went back to, you know, I interviewed hospice nurse Julie on the show. I read her book.

I'm going to share all these resources with you guys during this show. And I also went back to Chris Carr's

beautiful book. I'm not a morning person about the death of her father, Ken. And it really made me feel

so supported to do all of those things. So that's what I'm going to be talking about in today's

episode. So I want to take a moment to say thank you, thank you, thank you for being

here with me. You know, it really does warm my heart, but especially this episode is a really

special and personal episode to me, and it means the world to me that you're here with me.

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