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From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm Sarah Austin-Geness. In this show, stories of death,

but the kind of stories that will lift you up and may start a conversation around the inevitable.

In many cultures, death is not spoken of, which makes it scarier. So in this episode, we're talking about it,

with three stories that may make life's

endings a little easier. In the last days of my mother's life, when we finally knew she was dying,

there was a red-haired Irish nurse who came into our hospital room to start the morphine drip.

My mother was Irish, so this coincidence was comforting.

And I remember the nurse saying, in a smooth, almost angelic voice,

we cannot go back, we can only move forward.

They were words to live and die by.

So here we go. We start with Bruce McCullough.

He told this at a Moth main stage in Los Angeles, where we partnered with the Brod Stage.

Here's Bruce, live at the Moth.

Hello.

For my wife and my kids and I, we've always really loved Halloween.

And I think it's because we can put so much energy into our costumes.

You know, I usually dress in tandem with something, with my son, Rosco.

I was Robin to his Batman. We went out as hauling oats.

He was the handsome one, obviously. My wife went out as a Picasso painting, and then the year 1960. Go figure. She's creative that way, and it's one of her outlets.

She doesn't have the moth.

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