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Death Talk Unscripted with a Deathwalker
by Paula Adams-Death Walker Elder/ Podcast Host/ Destiny's Door Death Retreat
Death Talk: Legacy, lineage, and sacred embodiment.This podcast brings death into the light—and into the 21st century. Hosted by a Death Walker and MAID advocate, we confront taboos, outdated ethics, and religious bias. From euthanasia and Medical Aid in Dying to body removals, legacy planning, and healthcare reform—this is fierce, sacred, and unapologetically sovereign. Our bodies, our choice. How we die matters.
Episodes
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The War on Care: A Clinical Examination of How Opioid Policy Is Harming the Elderly, the Chronically Ill, and the Dying
America’s opioid policies were never designed for the elderly, the chronically ill, or the dying — yet they are the ones paying the highest price. This episode examines how federal regulation, DEA diversion rules, medication shortages, and fear‑based prescribing have created a national “War on...
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Choosing to Die: A Daughter’s Story of Supporting Her Mother’s End of Life Through Assisted Death
Choosing to Die: A Daughter’s Story of Supporting Her Mother’s End of Life Through Assisted Death In this episode of Death Talk Unscripted, Paula sits down with Theresa E. Evans, author of Choosing to Die, a powerful and intimate memoir documenting the final 86 days she spent caring for her…
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Generations That Refuses to Caregive — And What That Means for America’s Dying
In this episode, we step into one of the most uncomfortable and urgent truths in American life: a new generation is refusing to caregive — and the system that has always depended on their unpaid labor is starting to crack. For decades, the U.S. has quietly relied on daughters, daughters‑in‑law,...
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The Autonomy of Body Donation-When Choice, Cost, and Sovereignty Converge at the End of Life
In this episode, we step into one of the most misunderstood and quietly urgent conversations in modern deathcare: why more Americans than ever are choosing whole‑body donation, and what this choice reveals about sovereignty, cost, and the systems that shape our final moments. As a deathwalker and...
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When "Legal" Doesn't Mean Accessible
We don’t talk enough about the fact that “legal” does NOT mean accessible in this country. MAID is legal in some states. VSED is legal everywhere. Refusing treatment is legal. Advance directives are legal. And yet — when people try to use these options, they hit wall after wall after wall. No...
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The Poisoned Apple-A Metaphysical Thriller around Death
The Poisoned Apple — A Metaphysical Thriller in Disguise Season 4, Episode 2 — Death Talk Unscripted In this solo episode, I take you deeper into the heart of a story we’ve all inherited: the myth of death as the “poisoned apple.” We’ve been taught to fear it, avoid it, sanitize it, and pretend…
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Undiscovered Country: The Science of Dying with Dr. David Casarett
In this episode of Blood n Bone, host Paula A. sits down with Dr. David Casarett — palliative care physician, researcher, and author of Undiscovered Country: A Doctor’s Travel Guide to the End of Life. Together, they explore the biology of dying, the ways patients can design their end-of-life...
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Gaslighting@the Veil-When Medicine Denies the Dying their Voice.
Gaslighting at the Veil: When Medicine Denies the Dying Their Voices What happens when the systems meant to heal become the ones that silence? This conversation pulls back the curtain on the subtle violences of medical authority—where dying people are dismissed, diminished, or denied their own...
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Releasing the Final Tie- The Que we all Wait In.
In this episode of Death Talk Unscripted, Paula Adams, a Death Walker, explores the complex themes surrounding death, autonomy, and the experiences of those who are dying. She discusses the perception of time for the dying, the importance of allowing individuals to choose their end-of-life path,...
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Unpaid Caregivers The Invisible Backbone of The Hospice Economy
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...
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"When the Oath Harms-Rethinking 'Do No Harm'
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...
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How To I've &Stay Alive as a Caregiver
🎙️ 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…
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Rooted-Ritual The Old Ways Shelved
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,...
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Hospice Is Not The Holy Grail
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...
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MAID as an Energy Portal: Holistic Passage Beyond the Body
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.
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A Final Act Of Hope-Redefining Legacy Through Body Donation
Frames body donation as a meaningful, hopeful, choice for societal benefit. Resources for body donation: Science Care Mayo Clinic Research for Life Universities in your state Medical School Programs.
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Topling The System-Surge of Baby Boomers.
This podcast session is highly charged action required. In America there are over 8 million Baby Boomers, 30 plus billion have died, that means 50 minion will be continuing to die leaving a wake of healthcare diaster. Want to hear more come ck It out.
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Fear of Dying & Death-Break Damn Cycle Already
Investigate the various fears people have about dying, from the fear of the unknown to the fear of pain and suffering. We continue to feed the fear from generation to generation..Break the Damn Cyle Already.
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Body Donation Or Grave-S2 E2
Today, we're diving into a topic that is often overlooked but offers a legacy that echoes through the halls of science and education—body donation.
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Failing Deathcare
Something is very wrong wig this country's deathcare. We must do better be better. Beware tough episode!!!
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Season 2 Episode 1 -How much intervention do you really want?
This episode dives into the medical side of life saving techniques. Do you want them? If so how far do you want them to go? Death Plans are important. I talk about the nitty gritty so be warned ⚠️.
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Finale Season 1-Language of DEATH part 2
Have we been spooked about death? ☠️ This episode of The Language of Death part 2 continues from episode 10 dives into the words we use surrounding mortality. We'll explore how language can shape our fear of dying, and ask if it's time to rewrite the narrative. Tune in for a thought-provoking…
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Episode 10-The Language of Death part 1 -Unacceptable.
In this episode, I talk about how language and words can create a mess of fear, shame, and awful vibrations when it comes to discussing death and the dying process in this country. We are such pussies about death and it doesn't have to be that way at all.
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Natural Burials a Cultural Shift
Natural Burials are not the same as conventional burials. These types of burials are making a huge cultural shift in the process of burials and how we choose to have our bodies handled after death. The cosmic connection is gaining momentum.
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Episode 8-Let's Drop The God out of Death
In this episode, we step away from the dogmas and explore the nuanced humanistic, and philosophic lenses through which we view mortality. In a world where diverse beliefs interact, the topic of death remains universal. While religious traditions offer solace and guidance, there exists a rich...
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Episode 7-Breaking the Death Dogma
This episode challenges the conventional form of death, beliefs, and norms surrounding death. It delves and explores the concept of death in a thought-provoking manner. My personal experiences.
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Episode 6: Baby Boomers Rage Against the Dying Options
The Baby Boomer generation will be one of the largest groups of people to die in huge numbers at a time. Baby Boomers I speak with each month are Raging at the Options or lack of when it comes to Death. We deserve and require it to be a better system. If not then we will take it out of your hands...
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How Do You See Your Death?
How we see our death is so pivitol for so many reasons. Wouldn't be lovely to see a Good Death and A Good Day to Die vibrations. What if your death was the very last decision you as a sound grounded human being could make?
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Episode 4-Death IS MESSY
Episode 4 hits home that Death is Messy but hey Life is messy yet we find a way to balance out the messiness with moments of orderly and amicable moments why can't it be that way with Death in our culture? This is a gateway into my perspective that if we can just talk about dying and death and...
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Episode 3-Mentors to Die For.
This episode begins with a big thank you for all the responses so far. I wasn't expecting any of it. I just have a desire to use my voice and my calling. This episode will introduce you to my Mentors who fueled me into the death scene. I am so proud that after all these decades Death is getting...
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DeathPHOBIA in our USA culture
We as a culture don't accept death as a natural and brilliant process. We try to cheat it, beat it, deny it till it just appears but most of all we don't simply just sit and talk about it. Here's the thing we all are already in the queue and as far as I know 10 out 10 die.
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Episode 1 Welcome to my World
To introduce and welcome everyone to my world as a Death Walker and Death Talker. This first episode introduces my mind, soul, and spirit as a Death Walker, or as we call it in today's news Death Doula. To open up new avenues, concepts, and ideas about death and how we seem to keep it locked away...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Death Talk: Legacy, lineage, and sacred embodiment.This podcast brings death into the light—and into the 21st century. Hosted by a Death Walker and MAID advocate, we confront taboos, outdated ethics, and religious bias. From euthanasia and Medical Aid in Dying to body removals, legacy planning, and healthcare reform—this is fierce, sacred, and unapologetically sovereign. Our bodies, our choice. How we die matters.
HOSTED BY
Paula Adams-Death Walker Elder/ Podcast Host/ Destiny's Door Death Retreat
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Death Talk: Legacy, lineage, and sacred embodiment.This podcast brings death into the light—and into the 21st century. Hosted by a Death Walker and MAID advocate, we confront taboos, outdated ethics, and religious bias. From euthanasia and Medical Aid in Dying to body removals, legacy planning, and...
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