Let's Talk About Death

The Girl Next Door Podcast

Kelsey Wharton

Kids & Family, Working, Books, Family, Creative, Cooking, Work, Mom, Honest, Life, Society & Culture, Married, Personal Journals, Conversation

4.8 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We have a tender episode today talking about death. We share our experiences with death thus far, and how we are thinking about that inevitability for loved ones and more generally. We also share the songs and writing about death that have moved us.

Thanks for being here with us, and we're so glad to be with you.

Just for Friends of the Show, we're each sharing our current thoughts on how we hope to be remembered one day when we leave this life.

See full show notes on our website: Let's Talk About Death

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Girl Next Door. I'm Kelsey.
0:06.0	And I'm Erica. In every episode, we bring our different perspectives to candid conversations that feel like chatting with good friends.
0:12.0	We started this show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of things to talk and laugh about yet.
0:19.0	Friends, today we are talking about death as we continue our Let's Talk About It series,
0:25.2	where we bring deeper topics to the show.
0:27.8	As I was thinking about making this outline, I had to chuckle to myself because we often
0:31.9	have lighter titles to our episodes, and there is no way to make this topic sound lighter
0:36.9	than it is.
0:38.4	We are the show that brings you ridiculous candle sniffing every fall, and we're also
0:43.1	dropping some death talk right into your podcast feed on a Wednesday.
0:47.0	You're welcome.
0:47.8	We contain multitudes, and we appreciate you being here with us.
0:51.6	We did touch on this topic briefly in our episode called Our Faith
0:55.6	and Non-Belief in which we both answered the question, what do you think happens when you die?
1:00.9	We loved making that whole episode, and we will link to that in the show notes if you missed it.
1:06.7	You might know that we make our entire topic calendar for the year during our annual retreat.
1:12.4	And as we've been working through our topics this year, we found it kind of amusing how many
1:16.9	deeper and more difficult topics we plan for ourselves this year.
1:20.6	And what we have to say about that is that we are two women in our 40s.
1:24.6	Erica had cancer last year.
1:26.4	And we are living through 2025. So we have some stuff
1:30.1	to talk about. We like many of you are going through it. Yes. Yes, we are. So here we are. Let's get
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