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Alive with Steve Burns

What is Dying? with Hospice Nurse Julie McFadden

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0588 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Julie and Steve dig deep into their emotions, their experience, and the science as they discuss the big question: What is dying? Julie McFadden, RN, is the bestselling author of Nothing to Fear. She is a palliative care nurse with more than fifteen years of experience. She is passionate about normalizing death and dying and has more than one million followers on TikTok as @hospicenursejulie.  Our listeners get 10% off their first month at betterhelp.com/stevealive. Try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE at this exclusive web address: ziprecruiter.com/ALIVE. Head to ComicConTheCruise.com/ALIVE to learn more and book your cabin — and don’t forget to use code ALIVE for $250 off per cabin on new reservations! You can follow Steve Burns @steveburnsalive on Instagram. Watch full episodes of Alive on YouTube. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia.    If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to subscribe to Lemonada Premium. You’ll get ad-free episodes and bonus content from Steve. Just hit the 'subscribe' button on Apple Podcasts, or, for all other podcast apps head to lemonadapremium.com to subscribe.    Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

Lemonada

0:02.0

Alive

0:10.0

Alive

0:14.0

with Steve Burns

0:16.0

There you are, come on it, come on it, come on it

0:20.0

Welcome to Alive. I'm very glad you're here. You look great. By the way. Anyway, so thanks for coming. Today I kind of want to talk about something kind of big, like real big. Can I ask you, uh, do you

0:40.6

ever think about death? Yeah. Okay, uh, do you ever think about, um, dying? Like,

0:53.9

what, like, what is that?

0:55.2

Like, what is the experience of someone who is physically dying?

1:07.3

Yeah.

1:10.7

Yeah. Yeah, that is something that I think about, like, all the time, actually.

1:17.6

I'm making tea.

1:18.6

Do you want tea?

1:20.6

There's tea.

1:21.6

It's actually a thing that I feel like I was kind of forced to think about a lot back in the day, kind of against my will, because there was like this internet rumor going around that I was dead, that I had died and was not alive.

1:39.8

Yeah, and it was always some weird way, right?

1:41.5

Like I died in a car crash or a heroin overdose or like suicide.

1:48.0

That was one of them.

1:49.7

And it was nuts.

1:51.9

And no matter what we did, we couldn't get rid of the rumor, right?

1:56.4

Like it didn't matter no matter how many talk shows I went on and said, oh, I'd feel fine.

2:00.7

Or how many new episodes of Blues Clues we made, it didn't matter, no matter how many talk shows I went on and said, oh, I'd feel fine, or how many

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