Show 1388: Dreams That Help People Find Hope and Meaning at Life’s End

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Our culture tends to avoid thinking about death. Even though we know it is inevitable, we tend to act as though it doesn’t actually pertain to us. As a result, most of us have spent little time learning how people find hope and meaning at life’s end. The intense dreams and visions that dying people […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	When people are facing the end of their lives,
0:18.0	it's not unusual for them to have dreams and visions of deceased loved ones.
0:23.3	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady.
0:27.0	Until reason. Until recently doctors and other health care professionals have been
0:37.9	reluctant to talk about these experiences but they are powerful and
0:42.4	affect patients deeply.
0:45.0	Dr. Christopher Kerr has been studying end of life dreams and visions for years.
0:50.0	His new book is called Death is But a Dream.
0:54.0	Themes of travel, beloved pets, or deceased loved ones can offer spiritual growth at this critical time.
1:01.0	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, finding hope and meaning at life's end. In the people's pharmacy health headlines, bird flu is getting worrisome.
1:17.0	Initially it seemed as if the H5N1 virus posed little if any threat to humans, but a third case
1:28.1	reported this week suggests that the infection can now enter the lungs. That means it might spread more easily from
1:35.0	person to person. At first the avian influenza virus only seemed to attack birds. Then it
1:41.7	jumped to cows. Cats drinking raw milk were
1:45.3	lethally infected. The first two farm workers who came down with
1:49.3	bird flu had mild symptoms limited to their eyes. The third person though reported
1:54.7	congestion, a sore throat, and a cough indicating lung involvement. That could
2:00.4	mean the virus is adapting to humans and that it could move between people.
2:04.4	However, the CDC was unable to pull enough viral DNA from this patient
2:09.8	to determine if the virus has indeed mutated.
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