Ep 55: The Death Doula, Darnell Lamont Walker

<p>What happens in the room when someone takes their last breath? Darnell Lamont Walker would know. By day he&#39;s an Emmy-nominated kids&#39; TV writer behind Karma&#39;s World and Work It Out Wombats. The rest of the time he&#39;s a death doula, sitting with the dying and their families so nobody has to face the end alone. And he does most of it for free. In Darnell&#39;s words: &quot;I haven&#39;t quite figured out how to ask dying people for money.&quot; Gary and John sit down with him to talk about his book Never Can Say Goodbye, hospice, grief, and what being a death doula actually looks like.</p><p>Then things get weird, in the best way. Darnell describes the energy shift that can pass through a room at the moment of death, and an ayahuasca journey where he met his late grandmother again. He also takes on the big Splintered Spirits question: what are spirits? We get into why men have such a hard time talking about death, whether spirit guides help us through life&#39;s transitions, and what a death doula does when a client wasn&#39;t a good person.</p><p>Stay to the very end. Darnell rewrites his own obituary every year, so Gary and John give it a try. One is heartfelt. The other is John&#39;s. 👻 (I&#39;m kidding, they&#39;re both insane). If you&#39;re into the paranormal, the afterlife, end-of-life care, or just the strange side of death, hit play, then like, share, comment and subscribe.</p>