She is with the organization, Respect for Human Life.

You can go find out more about them at respect for human life.com.

She speaks all over the country.

She's been on a number of podcasts talking about this topic.

And you can also go to that website to follow her on social media.

So thank you so much, Dr. Klessig, for coming on the show and being willing to talk about this subject.

Well, thank you so much for inviting me.

It's my pleasure.

Well, talk to me a little bit about your story, how you got into this.

It's not a topic.

I see a lot of medical professionals wanting to touch, especially publicly.

So what prompted you to talk about this?

Well, you know, first of all, nobody likes to think about death or talk about death. And so we sort of put it off and put it off until suddenly we're in a crisis.

And now we haven't slept, we haven't eaten.

We're confronted with a, say, a sick child on a ventilator and we're not able to come to grips with what's going on.

So I'm here to help people sort these things out ahead of time so that when the worst day of your

life happens, you haven't been blindsided. You've had a chance to think these things over ahead of time.

And the reason I like to do that is because I was blindsided.

You know, I came in one night during my anesthesiology residency training program for night call

and walked into the operating room and up to the desk and reported for duty. And the doctor there said,

oh, Klessig, glad you're here. We're going to have you go up to ICU. We've got a

brain dead man that you're going to bring down an anesthetize for an organ harvesting. I was a little

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