What Hospice Nurses Know About Death— With Christa McDonald | EP 485

About this episode

Christa McDonald shares insights from her 20 years as a hospice nurse about death and living.

What if the people who've spent the most time at the threshold of death have something to teach the rest of us about how to live? Christa McDonald has spent more than 20 years as a hospice nurse, watching thousands of people take their final breaths. What she's witnessed has reshaped everything she believes about death, grief, connection, and the soul. In this conversation, she brings that hard-won wisdom straight to you — and some of it will unsettle you in the best possible way. In this epi...

People in this episode

Host: Brian D. Smith

Guest: Christa McDonald

Topics covered

• hospice care
• death
• grief
• connection
• wisdom
• spirituality

Keywords

• hospice
• nurse
• death
• grief
• soul
• wisdom
• connection

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