Breathing Wind Podcast
Breathing Wind
35: Embrace Death, Live Life
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35: Embrace Death, Live Life

How might we begin to demystify death for each other and live fully alongside it?

“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.



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, her passion for having important conversations, and how she has shifted her perspective since being an ICU and palliative care nurse.


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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

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Breathing Wind Podcast
Breathing Wind
Breathing Wind is a podcast about grief and loss and how we journey with these lifelong companions.
Naila Francis, grief coach, writer and former journalist and Sarah Davis, podcast consultant, speaker and writer, are cohosts. We offer warm, honest and insightful conversations for the introspective at heart.
Launched in 2019 as a personal grief project, the podcast struck a chord with listeners looking for a space to feel less alone in their grief. Quickly, a dedicated community grew around the candid and compelling conversations with others who knew grief just as intimately and those who offered guidance for navigating this universal human experience.
In its three seasons of publishing monthly episodes, Breathing Wind has become a trusted space to explore who we become and how we make meaning in the midst of our post-loss lives. It's also the place where joy, laughter, wonder and possibility co-exist alongside deep heartbreak.
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