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The Unfolding

Unfolding Short Stories: "It will be a good death." Dr. Pamela Pyle Shares End-of-Life experiences

The Unfolding

Northwestern Media

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9809 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

 

Hear Dr. Pamela Pyle's full story on the latest episode of Wow God Stories.

“It will be a good death.” These words were shared by a patient. This episode explores what Dr. Pamela Pyle calls the “ending journey.” As a hospital physician and the author of Anticipating Heaven, she’s witnessed a peace in dying that defies understanding. It began with a conversation by a patient’s bedside. It led to the writing of a book. But more than anything, it led her to see death not as a cold ending, but as a sacred passage. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

There is nothing more powerful than walking the journey home with someone who is dying and has faith.

0:09.9

God's story? Your life. Unfolding short stories.

0:18.8

Before she wrote her book, anticipating heaven, Dr. Pamela Pyle was a physician chasing purpose.

0:26.8

As a young, successful woman, when her fast and furious lifestyle came crashing down literally,

0:33.9

with their husband experiencing a near-death moment from a motorcycle injury

0:38.4

and a subsequent radical faith transition.

0:41.8

She was in a bit of a foggy faith wilderness for quite a while.

0:46.0

My name is Pamela.

0:47.8

And I'm a physician, internal medicine, board certified.

0:52.9

My practice had been working mostly in hospitals,

0:56.6

but also in Rwanda on mission since 2009. The beginning of my career, I was not a Christian.

1:03.0

But seven years in, I came to faith in a powerful way. I began to share my faith.

1:12.3

God really had a different plan for my life.

1:15.4

He really had to take me through a season of suffering

1:18.0

to understand that my identity wasn't in who I was,

1:24.6

wife, mother, doctor, with who I was in Christ.

1:29.5

And in that journey, I had reached a place where I didn't even know how to pray,

1:36.5

but I knew in the middle of the night, the only comfort was by laying my head on my Bible

1:42.1

and Jesus would meet me there.

1:45.2

And that was when I first went to Rwanda and he said,

1:49.6

this is your place and your purpose.

1:51.9

It started with late nights in a Bible.

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