Advanced Planning with Pat Deegan RN - Episode 9

The episode discusses the dying process and anticipatory grief. Diane Carbo, an end-of-life specialist, and Pat Deegan, an ex-hospice nurse, share their views on how hospitals view death as a failure, and how modern medicine can give people false hope with light-altering treatments. The sudden deaths that mourners have to face cause their grief process to take years as they don't have time to prepare. Diane shares her personal experience with anticipatory grief, where her mom beat cancer but died due to complications from treatment. They discuss the symptoms of anticipatory grief for the person and family mourners, including preoccupation with dying, cognitive changes, and loneliness. The podcast aims to help people overcome their fear of dying by discussing death and dying openly.