Dying to Tell You

Palliative Care Chaplain Cody Hufstedler knows how difficult it can be for us all to acknowledge—much less talk about—the fact that we’re all born with an expiration date. That we are, in fact, one day going to die. Through his career in healthcare, he has helped countless terminally ill patients and their loved ones work through this most challenging of life’s realities. What he’s discovered over the years is the understanding, comfort, even joy that can come through intentionally facing our finish line. Not just for those who are fast approaching it, but for everyone young or old, sick or healthy. Cody began this podcast as a way to share these endearing and lovely stories of life, death, and dying. Far from morbid, these episodes are deeply alive explorations of life’s greatest mysteries and windows into the wonderful, human richness of living.All music licensed through Artlist.

Dying to Tell You is a health podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 105 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #405

  Movement Is Medicine: How an Ironman Faces Stage Four Cancer

  Aug 13, 20261h 11mS4

  Jonathan Pascual is a lung transplant nurse practitioner and 16-time Ironman finisher who's spent years helping other people through the end of their lives. Now, three and a half years into his own terminal diagnosis, he's still training, still racing — including a finish at the Ironman World Championship in Kona. Movement is his medicine, and stoic philosophy is his compass. Join Cody for a conversation about clarity, defiance, and what it means to keep choosing to move, even when the rock keeps rolling back down.

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  Episode #404

  Falling Back into the Arms of Each Other: A Reflection

  Aug 6, 20264 minS4

  Nobody turns to their car for comfort. Nobody's pain is eased by holding a wad of cash. Especially in times of challenge, all we have is each other. Cody's deeply personal reflection this week points to this critical fact of life. We see this so movingly in MaRee's kids coming together to support her as she sold her house and became the wandering mom with ALS, welcome in every home, supported at every turn. And Cody himself saw this when he attended and spoke at a dear friend's Celebration of Life this past week. Amid all the grief and sadness, he felt the real meaning of connection and support from the people around him. All we have is each other. Give it a listen today, and be sure to listen to MaRee's full episode if you haven't already.

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  Episode #404

  E404 - Do It Now: Living with ALS, One Trip at a Time

  Jul 30, 202648 minS4

  It took MaRee two full years to figure out what was happening to her body, and at the end of that frustrating journey she faced the one diagnosis she most feared — ALS . Maybe because of the severity of that diagnosis. Maybe because she's a hospice nurse of 17 years who's cared for ALS patients and knows what's coming. Or maybe because she simply is who she is. Whatever the reason, MaRee took the advice she was given straight to her generous heart: Do It Now. Don't wait. She quit her job, sold her home, and has been traveling with her family ever since. She's racked up more miles than anyone else we can think of in the year since she's been diagnosed. For more information on the sponsor of this episode, please visit the Iliff Death Care Collective . For free access to additional content and updates from Cody, visit our Patreon ! And to listen to music from this episode and all episodes, follow our ever-growing playlist on Spotify .

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  Episode #403

  The Person Remains: A Reflection

  Jul 23, 20266 minS4

  Why? The shortest, most impossible question. The ironies and injustices of terminal diagnoses seem impossible to reconcile. They came up in last week's episode as we talked with Ross, who went from expert to patient in the space of four days. Cody reflects on not just that but also on what we can do when we face these kinds of unanswerable questions. And the one thing he finds we can do is kindness. We can be kind. And for people facing their own terminal diagnosis, we can be kind in a very specific, meaningful way.

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  Episode #403

  E403 — Cancer Expert, Cancer Patient: A Doctor Faces the Disease He Knows Best

  Jul 16, 202659 minS4

  Who better to get lung cancer than one of the world’s leading experts on lung cancer? Admittedly, the word “better” is not really right here. But this is essentially what we heard from Dr. Ross Camidge when he sat down to talk with Cody for this week’s episode. Ross is a global expert in his field, the doctor other doctors go to. In 2022, he was diagnosed with a form of advanced non-small cell lung cancer driven by a specific acquired genetic change in the tumor cells — one of the exact types of lung cancer he has spent his career researching and treating. For more than two years, Ross kept his diagnosis close, only telling a small circle of peers and his family for fear of negatively impacting his patients and the work he still had left to do. But disease progression eventually made it impossible to hide it any longer, and he came out of his diagnosis closet. When people found out he had the very type of cancer he’s an expert on, they’d often react with dismay at the irony. “You’re the last person who should get this,” they’d say. But Ross sees things differently. Who better to understand and navigate cancer’s maze of diagnoses and decisions? Who better to learn through his own experience what it has been like for the community of cancer patients he’s treated for years? And who better to take this two-sided coin of knowledge to the world and share what he’s seen? As he says, he sees it as a privilege that he gets to “take one diagnosis for the team.” Join Cody and Ross for a brilliant, touching, highly informative and poignantly funny conversation about facing a cancer diagnosis with every card on the table. For more information on the sponsor of this episode, please visit the Iliff Death Care Collective . For free access to additional content and updates from Cody, visit our Patreon ! And to listen to music from this episode and all episodes, follow our ever-growing playlist on Spotify .

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