The Final Say Debra Jarvis

Debra asks thoughtful, probing questions about the very personal and possibly difficult subject of dying. She doesn’t settle for easy answers, but her questions and comments always come from a place of caring. Perhaps we get a particular kind of perspective from her interviews simply because these people have agreed to talk about their experience. I don’t know whether it takes any convincing for them to be interviewed. But I think the main point, which Debra achieves, is to encourage us to talk openly about death as something we’re all going to face and that, while it may be sad, it doesn’t have to be something we fear.

I am a hospice physician and could not recommend this podcast more highly! Debra expertly addresses many of the fears and questions that emerge in the process of dying and does it with courage, charm, respect, humor and love. In the process of listening to these episodes, the listener is given gifts of learning more about how people experience hospice, and in that process, discovering how individuals experience gratitude for life and death.

Debra is wise, funny, thoughtful, fearless, generous, and honest—the perfect companion and teacher in confronting a subject (death) that can be just a bit scary. Thank you for lifting up the amazing people you host and their stories, and thank you for your own ministry.