Episode 35: Embrace Death, Live Life

“Working in the ICU, when you see [death and dying] on a regular basis, I think it just makes you all that more intentional about how you live your life.”

Deborah Szeto

This episode is part of a Breathing Wind miniseries titled Embrace Death, Live Life, hosted by Deborah Szeto. The Embrace Death, Live Life miniseries explores the work of palliative care in healing and how we can live fuller lives while embracing and normalizing death.

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How might we begin to demystify death for each other and live fully alongside it? In this episode, Deborah Szeto, ICU and palliative care nurse, and Breathing Wind producer, Sarah Davis, talk about Deborah’s background, palliative care, talking about death and dying, and how she has shifted her perspective since being an ICU and palliative care nurse.

Deborah and Sarah talk about:

• How Deborah became interested in palliative care

• What palliative care is and how it’s misunderstood by patients and many physicians

• How difficult and yet important it is to have conversations about death and dying

• How Deborah’s life has taken on a different path after witnessing death

Related resources:

• The Conversation Project

• How COVID-19 Forced Me to Reflect on and Prepare for Mortality

• Death Over Dinner

• The Dinner Party

• The Farewell

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