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For over fifty years, palliative nurse and author Dale Heim has helped people on their final journeys, from the tragic and scarring to the beautiful and uplifting. Now it's time to pass on what she's learned, and help open the conversations about death we don't have until it's too late. Join Dale and her collaborator Charles Featherstone as she shares insights from the frontlines of nursing, hospice, and trauma wards. On the way we'll talk about how she keeps herself sane and positive, and how we can all find ways to make our peace with death, whether that's our own or that of someone we ...

For over fifty years, palliative nurse Dale Heim has been a keeper of stories—whispered confessions, defiant last wishes, and unexpected moments of grace at life’s closing. In Dying Ways, she shares raw, tender stories from the frontlines of mortality: A tantric teacher who swims with dolphins as her final act of freedom; A grandmother dancing with butterfly tattoos over mastectomy scars; A WWII survivor serenaded by the Hallelujah Chorus as she takes her last breath; and many more.