Last Words Podcast
Last Words Podcast
Podcast Description
Last Words Podcast is a podium for the dying — to share stories, reflections, and legacies, helping us better understand what it means to truly live.
Episodes alternate between two-part series:
Last Words – Real stories from people facing the end of life, whether due to terminal illness or diagnoses with uncertain timelines.
Death Perception – Conversations with first responders, caregivers, medical professionals, clergy, and others attuned to death through life experience.
New episodes every Tuesday at 5 AM CST.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on themes of mortality, caregiving, and the legacies people leave behind, with episodes exploring personal stories like Amber Olsen's journey with her daughter Willow and the impact of terminal illness on family dynamics, as well as insights from healthcare professionals regarding their experiences with death.
Last Words is a podium for the dying created to share stories, reflections, and living legacies.
Host Nic Main, a former cancer patient, created the podcast in the face of his mother’s death with one goal: to learn what it means to live.
Episodes follow a two-part format:
Last Words – Real stories from people facing death through terminal illness or uncertain diagnoses.
Last Words: Death Perception – Conversations with those who walk and work alongside the dying, who provide their unique perspectives on how death shapes how they live life.
New episodes every Tuesday at 5 AM CST.
This episode is in memory of Janet Archibald who passed away on October 21st, 2025.
On October 7th, host Nic Main sat with Janet in English, Indiana as Janet traversed some of her final moments in life.
This would be the first time the two of them met officially.
Unlike other podcasts prior, this was a moment where Nic simply sat up the microphone and let Janet leave behind her last words to the world.
Just simply: Janice putting her heart out there for the world to hear.
In this episode Janet discusses:
‑ How she views death.
– Her personal testimony.
‑ Noticing the simple blessing of the day to day.
‑ The first thought she had when she was diagnosed.
‑ How she had open conversations with her creator.
Most of all she looks back fondly on the life that she lived.
Regardless of the pain and burdens that she had to carry,
Simply stating: What more could you want?
This is Last Words.
This is Janet Archibald.
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