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, founded 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.
Death Perception – Conversations with those who walk and work alongside the dying.
New episodes every Tuesday at 5 AM CST.
Want to share your story? Visit lastwordspodcast.org and click the “Guests” tab.
According to John Hopkins, the gun death rate increased 40% from 2014 to 2023. With firearms being the leading cause of death among young people ages 1-17 in 2023 in Missouri.
In this episode, Caleb walks us through the gun violence epidemic in Jennings, Missouri.
He discusses how the landscape of gangs have changed, in terms of honor and a code.
How children as young as 12 are joining low level gangs and what happens to them over the course of the next 6 years.
What it is like as a police officer to combat generational trauma that is fueled by poverty.
The unique perspective of having worked in the school system, before putting on the badge.
Protecting a community that wants to grow out of what it has been.
He helps us understand outside the uniform, how he views his own mortality.
And shares the one call that taught him how to make every moment count.
This is Last Words: Death Perception
This is Caleb Davey.
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