Everyone Dies (Every1Dies)

Find connection and community through digital preservation and memorialization
People are more frequently choosing cremation over burial and in doing so, raises the question of memorialization. Digital memorials are the current answer to how to keep our memory alive without a gravesite to visit. The available options seem only to be limited by our imagination and the current technology available.

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
• 00:20 – Intro
• 03:52 – John Green’s Paper Towns
• 09:18 – Recipe of the Week: Southern Fried Cabbage
• 11:02 – Interview: Digital Memorials
• 44:51 – Outro

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Indigenous Americans have higher rates of cancer, dementia, and diabetes compared to other US populations. How is this related to their historical experiences? We talk about an understandable distrust of the healthcare system and how it continues to impact tribes. https://bit.ly/49zPMy2

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
• 00:20 – Intro
• 04:50 – Recipe of the Week: Pawpaw Cookies
• 08:19 – Exploring Native American Health Disparities
• 25:16 – Interview: Dr. Jeanna Ford on COVID impacts for tribes
• 46:05 – Outro

#nativeamerican #indigenous #tribalcustoms #healthcaredisparities #everyonedies #deathpositive #palliativecare #everydayisagift #grief #pawpaw #genocide #healthcaredisparities #historicaltrauma #restitution #COVID #indianschools 

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Learn all about stomach cancer treatment, symptom management, and end-stage disease.

In Part 1 we talked about risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, staging, and survival estimates. This week for Part 2 of our discussion we review treatment options, symptom management, end-stage disease, and how you can support someone with stomach cancer.

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
• 00:20 – Intro
• 02:18 – How to Lower Your Risk for Stomach Cancer
• 09:50 – Recipe of the Week: Popcorn Balls
• 12:39 – Stomach Cancer Treatment
• 21:01 – Stomach Cancer Symptom Management
• 33:14 – End-Stage Stomach Cancer
• 41:49 – How to Support Someone with Stomach Cancer
• 50:24 – Greg’s Journal: The Loneliness of Caring for Someone with Alzheimer’s Disease
• 54:00- Outro

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 Learn all about stomach cancer risk factors, symptoms & diagnosis

Toby Keith died this month, 28 months after his stomach cancer diagnosis. Stomach cancer is the 5th most common cancer in the world, and anyone can get it. This is part one of a two-part review where we talk about risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, staging, and survival estimates. We also celebrate the life and poetry of Toby Keith.

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
•  00:20 – Intro
•  05:59 - Remembering Toby Keith
•  17:16 - How to make Toby's Fried Bologna Sandwich
•  18:19 - All About Stomach Cancer, Part 1: risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, staging, and survival estimates
•  47:21 - Don't Let the Old Man In
•  52:47 - Outro

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Learn about the hidden, cumulative effects of tackle football on the brain, especially for children, and how you can minimize the risk.

Playing tackle football as a child can impact health and quality of life as an adult. Simply put, lifestyle impacts health. So, what do you do when your child brings home the permission form to play football when every year there are new studies documenting the negative long-term effects linking football and brain disease? This week’s show focus can help you answer this question and help you protect your child’s developing brain

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
• 00:20 – Intro
• 04:23 – Honoring our Fallen Soldiers
• 05:53 – Super Bowl
• 07:09 – Recipe of the Week: Pig Candy
• 11:09 – Traumatic Brain Encephalitis
• 35:56 – Funeral Theater: “Concussion”
• 44:20 – Outro

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How do I help a Native American friend who is sick or grieving?

It may be awkward when someone has a different culture to know what to do. Each tribe, person and family can be different. Dr. Jeanna Ford joins us again to talk about her experiences in her culture and as a medical professional and to give us advice and help to understand. This is especially important for anyone in a healthcare profession or caregiving role.

We celebrate the role of family with fry bread, a favorite food that is made and eaten together and its history.  We finish off with a beautiful essay about the sacred connection with the sun.

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Our Sponsor: Tree of Life Memorials and Digital & Stone
• 00:20 – Intro
• 03:01 – Recipe of the Week: Indian Taco
• 03:36 – The History of Indian Fry Bread
• 08:32 – Marianne’s Powwow Experiences
• 12:27 – Oklahoma in the Oil Boom Era
• 20:05 – Guest Dr. Jeanna Ford on Native American Families
• 30:21 – A Sacred Connection to the Sun, by Joy Harjo
• 33:40 – Outro

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Does choosing hospice mean the end? President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn courageously allowed us to see their frailty and openly shared their journey near the end of life, including decisions for hospice so they could spend as much time as possible together. The Carters have shown us hospice is about holding hands, eating favorite foods, and living your best life, even while dying.

Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter died on November 19, 2023, two days after the Carter Center announced she would be entering hospice with a diagnosis of end stage dementia. The Carters demonstrate that hospice support can last a couple of days, or in the case of Mr. Carter, 11 months and still counting. This week we explore the lessons we can learn from the Carter family regarding aging, illness, and loving.

In this Episode:

• 02:16 – Recipe: Rosalyn Carter’s Cheese Ring
• 02:38 – Rosalyn Carter’s Advocacy for Caregivers
• 06:51 – Jimmy Carter’s Hospice Decision
• 08:59 – How Some Patients Live Longer on Hospice
• 11:09 – The Realities of Hospice…is Home the Best Place to Die for Everyone?
• 18:07 – How the Carters Modeled How to Die
• 24:59 – Outro

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While each Native American Tribe has unique funeral practices, there is a lot of commonality in their beliefs about death and how the body should be treated afterwards. Understanding these beliefs is important to honor the deceased and support the bereaved.

In This Episode:

• 05:17 – Food and Native American Life
• 08:05 – Recipe – Scalloped Corn Casserole
• 09:43 – Death in Indigenous American Communities; Interview with Dr. Jeanna Ford
• 19:59 – Witness to a Native American Funeral
• 28:38 – Outro

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We want our loved ones to be able to make their own decisions as long as they are able, but what do you do when they are making bad decisions? Learn about decision-making capacity and the differences between ability, capacity and competency. Listen and get resources: https://bit.ly/48u4DcB

#decisions #advancedirective #takingcareofmom #dementia #caregiver #healthcareproxy #everyonedies #everydayisagift

In this Show:

• 01:27 – Recipe: Peanut Butter Cake Mix Cookies
• 03:39 – Connections with Loved Ones After Death
• 17:22 – Decision-Making Ability, Capacity, and Competency
• 1:04:12 – Encouragement for Caregivers from a Hospice Nurse
• 1:07:59 – Outro

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Did you know a two-second diversion is all it takes to double your risk of a car accident? Learn facts and several tips to help you and others stay safe on the road.  We also talk about two people's long journey to burial and a wife's dilemma when her husband asked him to help him find a way to kill himself to avoid dementia.

In this Episode:

• 01:21 – Recipe of the Week: Bliss Balls
• 02:21 – Long Journeys to Burial
• 11:03 – How to Avoid a Car Accident
• 39:28 – Ask the Ethicist: “My Husband Is Facing Dementia. Can I Help Him End His Life?”
• 51:11 – Outro

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Traumatic or Complicated Grief is difficult to work through on your own.  We give you tips on how to find the right therapist and share our original season one podcast on the special circumstances that make this type of grief so hard.

In this Episode:

•  00:00 - Finding a Therapist
• 04:57 - Intro to S1E07 Rebroadcast about Traumatic Grief
• 06:02 - Recipe of the Week: Chocolate Éclair Cake
• 08:26 - Traumatic Bereavement
• 32:39 - Caught in the Act
• 46:03 - Outro

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The holidays can trigger emotions - good and bad - about family members that are no longer with us. This week is all about fathers. We share an interview with Mike Ward, a Detroit-based singer and songwriter who writes about coming to terms with aging, loss, and death. This week Mike shared about a song he wrote for his father called "Wrestling with Ghosts."
We also rebroadcast an episode where we talk about why the death of a father can affect us differently and strategies to help you deal with the death of your father, especially if it was a complicated or non-existent relationship. 

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Connie Baker - co-creator of the Wong-Baker pain scale (the one with the faces) - has had her own journey with breast cancer and now her father's advanced cancer. Learn about her experience with palliative care and how people have a voice in their care.

We also are rebroadcasting one of our very first episodes: "What is Palliative Care?" This is one of our most foundational podcasts - we discuss the concept of palliative care, how it integrates with medical care, and the differences between palliative care and hospice care. Please take a listen and see how this can help you in your life and those around you. 

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What contributes to a healthy, fulfilling life? Listen to learn about the physical, mental and social behaviors geriatricians recommend for aging well, regardless of where you are in life.

In This Episode:

• 00:00 – How to Know If You Are Aging Well
• 05:02 – S2E40 Intro, Celebrating Betty White
• 10:04 – Happy Birthday Cheez-Its
• 23:09 – What Do You Have to Do To Live to 100?
• 46:53 – Children on “When I am 100 Years Old”
• 55:06 – Outro

The Secrets to Aging Well

Huffington Post recently published an article documenting what geriatricians say are indicators that someone is aging well. Let’s see how well we are doing based on their advice.

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The staff at Everyone Dies is taking a much-needed break this December, so we will be re-publishing some of our greatest hits with updated topical information as an introduction. This week we talk about the use of psychedelic drugs from the perspective of the scientist who legitimized the study of these drugs at Johns Hopkins University.

In this Episode:

• 00:00 – Dr. Roland Griffiths on his psychedelic inquiry with terminal cancer
• 06:35 – Intro (Episode is a re-run from S3E28)
• 10:38 – Five Little-Known Facts about Psychedelics
• 17:18 – Entheogens and Psychedelics
• 39:39 – Willie Nelson – "Dusty Bottles"
• 42:54 – Outro

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 We talk about what research tells us about loneliness, and what you can do to combat it. We also share how some elders in China are overcoming societal norms to meet their needs. 

In This Episode:

• 02:42 - The Fable of the Sand Dollar and Almond Sand Dollar Cookie Recipe
• 05:29 - How Loneliness Affects Us and What to Do About It
• 38:04 - China's Elder Game Shows Seek Connection
• 49:07 - Outro

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 With the rise of fentanyl-laced drugs thought to be safe, the life you save could be closer to home than you think.

Drug overdose deaths reached another record level in the United States this spring, data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows, as 2023 is on track to be another devastating year amid the drug epidemic. More than 111,000 people died from a drug overdose in the 12-month period ending in April. We discuss how naloxone can save the life of someone who has overdosed, and how empathy and education can help turn the tide and save a life.

In This Episode:

• 01:21 – Recipe: Butternut Macaroni and Cheese
• 08:09 – The Life of Dolores Alexander, Feminist Journalist and Activist
• 12:44 – Save a Life: Consider Carrying Naloxone
• 39:29 – Dementia Eyes
• 42:40 – Outro

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We explore the health disparities and what you can do to help for those with a learning disability, especially related to palliative and end of life care.

This week we are exploring the topic of having and terminal illness and how to get the information needed if you have a learning disability. Having a learning disability, or even several disabilities, isn’t related to intelligence. It just means that the person’s brain works differently from others. Be sure to see the resource links in show notes.

People with intellectual and learning disabilities are now living significantly longer than in previous generations. They not only face the same age-related health and social care needs as anyone, but they also have specific challenges due to their learning disability. They may also be left out of important activities such as a loved one’s funeral. Learn more about the challenges and how to support those with intellectual/learning disabilities, especially surrounding death and the end of life.

In this Episode:

• 02:13 – Recipe of the Week: Cheesecake Fruit Salad
• 04:26 – Dying Stars
• 12:56 – Learning Disability and End of Life
• 28:20 – “Is it ‘selfish’ to ask dying husband to hold on a little longer?” – Advice from Washington Post

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The use of hot water for therapy and relaxation goes back centuries. We talk about the background of the modern hot tub and precautions to enjoy it safely. We also share recommendations about whether dogs should use a hot tub, and why you might want to find an alternative.

In This Episode:

• 02:33 – The History of Hot Tubs
• 11:17 – Recipe of the Week: Hot Tub Chicken
• 13:35 – How to Use Hot Tubs Safely
• 30:05 – Why Dogs Should Not Use Hot Tubs
• 35:38 – Outro

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We talk about the purpose of shrines, and one movement in particular that is making an impact to promote safe conditions for bicyclists.

In this Episode:

• 03:31 – Recipe of the week: Stanley Tucci’s Martini
• 06:54 – Overlooked Obituary: Hannie Schaft
• 10:35 – Ghost Bikes and Memorial Shrines
• 19:07 – Offbeat Obituary – William Ziegler
• 21:25 – Outro

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