1KHO 448: Have We Removed the Greatest Teacher About How to Live? | Suzanne B. O'Brien, The Good Death

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

Ginny Yurich

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This is a must-listen-to episode!!! It's SO good and it will give you so much to ponder and talk about with others!! In this deeply moving episode of The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast, Ginny Yurich sits down with Suzanne O'Brien, author of The Good Death: A Guide to Supporting Your Loved One Through the End of Life. Suzanne, a registered nurse and death doula, offers a powerful, healing perspective on end-of-life care, emphasizing that death is not a medical event but a profoundly human experience. Through the lens of her expertise, Suzanne explores how we can reclaim the sacredness of dying, and the invaluable lessons it offers for living fully. She shares how, with the right knowledge and mindset, families can face death with peace and acceptance, avoiding regrets and embracing the opportunity for growth that end-of-life moments provide. Suzanne’s inspiring message encourages listeners to live each day with purpose, reflecting on the value of time and the importance of choosing to live fully—before we find ourselves looking back with regrets. This episode offers not just insights on how to support loved ones through the end of their journey, but also how to approach life itself with a heart full of gratitude, presence, and connection. A must-listen for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of both life and death, and how the two are inextricably linked. ** Get your copy of The Good Death here Learn more about Suzanne and all she has to offer here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, Greer here, host of the podcast, The Unfinished Idea, and we are joining with
0:07.3	Neurodiversity Celebration Week happening March 17th to the 21st by doing something extra special
0:13.7	on the podcast. Every single day that week, we will drop a new episode celebrating the beautiful,
0:19.7	diverse ways our minds work. We'll talk about
0:22.6	neurodiversity in the workplace, in schools, at home, and everywhere in between. We are sharing
0:28.0	real conversations, stories, and practical tips to help you better understand and celebrate
0:33.4	every brain type because the neurodiverse world is all around us. Whether you're a parent, an educator,
0:39.4	a colleague, or just someone curious about this topic, this series is for you. So join me at some
0:45.6	incredible guests as we dive in and celebrate all the unique ways our minds work. You'll walk away
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1:01.2	Let's celebrate all neurotypes together.
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1:16.0	All right, here we go. Welcome to the 1,ours Outside podcast. My name is Ginny Earch and the founder of 1000 Hours Outside. And I had an inquiry come in recently about an author and the topic is something
1:22.5	that I actually haven't thought much about. And certainly we've never talked about on this show.
1:27.2	And I just felt
1:28.0	drawn to it. Like this is probably something that's really important. It is something that's really
1:32.8	important. The book is called The Good Death. The subtitle is a guide to supporting your loved one
1:39.0	through the end of life. And the author, Suzanne B. O'Brien is here. Welcome, Suzanne. Thank you so much for having me.
1:45.9	So I read this book and actually a lot of it reminded me of birth. It was interesting. There's a lot of parallels I felt like with when you sort of step out of the medicalized birth realm and you know, you have a birth plan and you think through the different what happens for the first
2:01.0	hour afterward you start to think through those different things and you even call these doulas
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