This week on the Best Life Best Death podcast I’ll be talking with end-of-life practitioner Rhea Mader. You’ll hear why we love this time of year, plus a for-real-true ghost story!
About us
Best Life Best Death is a company founded by Diane Hullet, a certified end-of-life doula, speaker, and podcaster. The company offers end-of-life courses and a podcast to help people prepare for and navigate the end-of-life experience. Diane's mission is to change the conversation around death and dying and provide education and resources to individuals and families to ensure a meaningful end-of-life experience. The podcast features conversations with experts in the field of end-of-life care and personal stories from individuals who have faced end-of-life experiences. The courses and 1:1 sessions cover various topics such as determining priorities, making choices to age well, the purpose of hospice care, grief and loss, spiritual approaches, and advance care planning. Diane brings a compassionate and knowledgeable perspective to the topic of end-of-life care, and her work with Best Life Best Death has helped many individuals and families approach this important aspect of life with greater understanding and preparation.
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- Education
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- 2-10 employees
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2020
Employees at Best Life Best Death
Updates
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Thank you to Dr Matthew Tyler, huge advocate for patients and for doctors! He hopes that we can all do our best in this “dance of context and communication” between care providers and patients, whatever news they are sharing and facing. Listen to BLBD podcast #128 and #164 to hear this pragmatic, hopeful, Midwestern palliative doctor’s views. Thanks, Matthew!
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Listening to Dr Matthew Tyler mull over the intricacies of conversations between doctors and patients always gives me hope. How do we figure out when to say yes or no to treatment? How do we create conversations that navigate these waters with honesty and grace? How do doctors break bad news, and how do patients prepare to hear whatever is going to be said? Plus – what’s “the surprise question”? (Hint: it’s a way of getting at your life expectancy.) This is a wide-ranging conversation with seeds that I hope will bear fruit in your future. Listen here: https://lnkd.in/gCAmsssk
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👍👍 How do doctors begin to do this? SPIKES is one of the classic medical school training acronyms. It stands for: Setting the SCENE, understanding the PATIENT PERSPECTIVE, asking for an INVITATION to share the news, sharing the KNOWLEDGE (aka the bad news), navigating the EMOTIONS, SUMMARIZING the situation and next steps. Phew, that’s a lot. Thank you, doctors.
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This week on the Best Life Best Death podcast, I talk with Dr Matthew Tyler @howtotrainyourdoctor. Your advance directive is very important and a guide… but the conversation with the person who is stepping up on your behalf is key. Thus the question: who is your person and have you talked to them about your wishes? Dr Matthew Tyler and I first spoke back on BLBD #128, and this week – get ready for more!
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Stacey says, “[Love] is the human experience rated above all others, the most desirable emotion in our human library…. So much of real love revolves around bearing witness to the life of others and showing up in the hardest of times.” I loved this book by Stacey Heale. She writes passionately about her experience of loss, death, self, partnership, trauma, parenting, pain, and love. This book is like drinking from a fire hose that you can’t stop gulping. Love = so many things, including “showing up in the hardest of times.” Thanks, Stacey. Now Is Not the Time for Flowers
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Thank you to Barbara Karnes, RN, my guest this week and last week on the BLBD podcast. Her experience and wisdom were only somewhat helpful as she went through the dying and death of her husband. We all have to learn by “walking in the shoes.” May we lean in, learn, and support each other. (And if you missed BLBD #151 with Susan Lieberman, listen in for more quips and wisdom.)
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