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Welcome to the Drop the Needle podcast, your backstage pass to the corporate jungle. I'm your host, Jim Alstatt. And here, industry titans step up to the mic sharing their epic journeys. We're hitting the high notes and the low notes of their careers, creating a symphony of success. This isn't just another interview show. It's where truth bombs are dropped and secrets are revealed. So grab your conductor's baton because who knows, this just might help you compose the next huge hit of your career. Are you ready? Let's go. Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the Drop the Needle podcast. I'm your host, Jim Alstott. If you're just joining us, make sure you go back and check out part one of this powerful two part conversation. Last time, we explored the emotional and spiritual dimensions of hospice care with Martha and Irene. We talked about fear of death, personal awakenings, and even what it's like to meet with a psychic medium for the first time. Today we're picking up right where we left off, diving even deeper into the transition between life and death. What really happens in those final moments in the stories that have stayed with our guests forever. So buckle in, open up, and let's keep this powerful conversation going.
Martha (1:45)
What's really interesting to me is I was so afraid of death, but then as a nurse, I was drawn to hospice. Isn't that interesting? And, and, and, but the thing I love about hospice, I was a psych nurse too. I love the high communication, high emotion, high feeling, like where you really have to handle people with care. I mean, that's where it's like it, that's where it goes. That's where it's almost spiritual to me. Like, I can't explain how it feels in my body and in my heart, in my energy to be able to be in that kind of a situation with a family. And I will also say I've been with so many people at the moment, in the time that they're passing. I've never seen a person terrified and afraid of dying. By the time the body is in the active dying process, the consciousness changes and there's just a natural way that the body shuts down. There's A series of stages that one goes through. And like I said, it's being there for the family and explaining to them what's happened. Like, yeah, you're going to see this happen, but this is part of the process. It's a normal part of dying. And I know they're comfortable because their brow isn't furrowed. They're not moaning. There are signs that we can look for if. If to let us know if somebody is experiencing discomfort. So never seen anybody afraid at the moment of death. They're. You're just.
