In this episode of Death Talk, we shine a light on the 63 million unpaid caregivers who form the invisible backbone of hospice care. From financial strain to spiritual depletion, we explore the sacred labor of those who walk the dying—often in silence, often alone. With fresh data, ancestral insight, and deathwalker reverence, we ask: What does it mean to sacrifice everything for someone else's final chapter? And how do we begin to honor those who hold vigil at the threshold?

Let's talk about the Hippocratic Oath. Its 2,400 years old, Revered, Recited by every medical student. And yet-when it comes to death, Especially MAID-its often used as a shield. Not to protect the dying, but to avoid the conversation altogether.

It's time to ask: Is the oath still healing or harming? What would it look like rewritten for this time and place.

🎙️ Welcome to “How to Survive and Stay Alive as a Caregiver” — a space for those holding others through illness, grief, and transition.

Here, we share raw truths, practical tools, and ritual-rooted wisdom to help you stay nourished, grounded, and fiercely alive. Because caregiving isn’t just about survival—it’s about honoring your own sacred rhythm too.

In this soul-stirring episide, death walker Paula invites listeners into a sacred remembering od ancestral death rites-rituals that honored the dying with reverence, ceremony and sovereignty before systems soyght to sanitize and control the end of life. Through poetic reflection and storytelling, she explores how rooted traditions were shelved by medical, legal, and religious sectors-and how reclaiming them is an act of radical love.

Here in the USA, we have put hospice on a pedestal. What if it's not that holy to a vast amount of the population? Then what? Should anyones death require someone elses permission to die a certain way? Join me for this episode as I ask some hard questions, reveal some awful truths, and talk unscripted.

They call it Medica Aid In Dying. A Legal Term. A medicalized phrase. for those attuned to the liminal spaces whete body meets soul-its a threshold, a cosmic hinge.