Have We Forgotten How To Die?

Death is the one appointment none of us will miss. So why have we become so afraid to talk about it?

In Episode 187 of Crusade With Me!, Dave and Kat step into one of the most difficult—and strangely beautiful—parts of being human: death.

This isn't a conversation from a safe distance.

Dave was in the room when his mother died and arrived moments after his father's death, becoming the one who gently closed his father's eyes. Kat was driving her father to the hospital when he died. She pulled him from the vehicle and performed CPR until help arrived.

They've held death in their hands.

Together, they ask whether modern culture has become so focused on avoiding death that we've forgotten how to face it. What did earlier generations understand that we've lost? Why does death frighten us so deeply? And what changes when we stop treating death only as an enemy and begin seeing it as part of the mystery of life?

Dave also admits something that may sound strange:

He thinks there can be something beautiful about death.

Not because death doesn't hurt. Not because grief isn't real. But because perhaps death isn't simply an ending.

Maybe learning how to die is actually part of learning how to live.

Crusade With Me! — Episode 187 Have We Forgotten How to Die?

The Truth Is Worth Seeking.