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There at the End

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Performing Arts, Society & Culture, Comedy, Personal Journals, Arts

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

As part of our Grief Stories series, Barbara Todd tells a story about grief, guilt, and forgiveness. Then death doula Angela Shook helps her unpack that story. • Pitch us your story! risk-show.com/submissions • Support RISK! through Patreon at patreon.com/risk or make a one-time donation: paypal.me/riskshow • Get tickets to RISK! live shows: risk-show.com/live • Get the RISK! Book and shop for merch: risk-show.com/shop • Take our storytelling classes: thestorystudio.org • Hire Kevin Allison as a coach or get personalized videos: kevinallison.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey folks this is Kevin on this week's episode of risk you'll hear Barbara Todd

0:05.1

Then I took this advanced first-aid class and I was like oh my god I'm kind of good at this and I felt so

0:12.3

powerful having actual tools to help people.

0:16.0

And I thought,

0:17.0

oh my gosh, I need to be a nurse.

0:20.0

That and more.

0:21.0

But first, in this episode, we consider something that and

0:25.0

more, we consider something all of us have in common, death.

0:28.0

We're all touched by the transformation of life in death.

0:33.4

And sometimes our stories about it are tragic,

0:37.6

like in Liz Hedlund's story, expiration.

0:41.8

And of course I'm devastated without her.

0:45.0

And every time I think of that night, I have that same imploding ache in the depths of my chest.

0:51.0

But she's not in pain anymore.

0:55.0

And sometimes they're beautiful, like in Lee True's story,

0:59.5

the light that burns twice as bright. And then I kind of felt like every single one of these moths is someone's daughter,

1:08.0

someone's son.

1:09.0

Maybe the message is we're constantly flitting into and out of existence. Creatures are moving in and

1:14.7

out of life all the time. And they can even be hilarious. He took a good

1:20.6

dick out of this world. He took a good dick out of this world. He took a good dick out of this world.

1:25.0

He took a good dick out of this world.

1:28.0

And I said, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

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