Death Cast #1: Exploring the Health Benefits of Death

Welcome back to the Beautifully Broken Podcast. Today, we're diving into a topic that's both sobering and meaningful—Death. It can be scary and unsettling, but it’s this discomfort that reminds us of our mortality and urges us to seize opportunities to embrace experiences, foster connections,  and contribute to others’ lives.

Death is an ever-present guest in our lives. So in this solo episode, we give Death a metaphorical seat at our table as we engage with it in conversation, confronting our own fears and embracing the responsibility of understanding its significance.

Join me as we delve into our inaugural Deathcast, a conversation that’s as about Life as it is about Death. Let’s take this as an opportunity for introspection and a deeper understanding of what it means to truly live.

Episode Highlights

[0:00:00] Introduction

[0:01:17] About Time

[0:03:11] Death and Birth

[0:05:23] The Deathcast, and the Bell Curve of Mortality

[0:06:24] Why People Die and the Bell Curve of Mortality

[0:08:07] Dealing With Loss

[0:09:45] Understanding Our Response to the “Present”

[0:11:12] The Value of Death in Life

[0:12:28] Outro

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EPISODE TRANSCRIPT

Freddie Kimmel (00:00.942)
Welcome to the Beautifully Broken podcast. I'm your host, Freddie Kimmel, and on the show we explore the survivor's journey, practitioners making a difference, and the therapeutic treatments and transformational technology that allow the body to heal itself. Witness the inspiration we gain by navigating the human experience with grace, humility, and a healthy dose of mistakes. Because part of being human is being beautifully broken.

Freddie Kimmel (00:35.373)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Beautifully Broken Podcast. We are going to talk about death. This is my first, I'm going to call it the Death Cast. And I believe at its best application, death, along with a deep awareness of mortality and the finite nature of life is going to inspire you. It's going to inspire you to value your time, to pursue meaningful experiences, to take the trip.

kiss the girl, to go on the date, to buy the house, and contribute to the well-being, of course, of others, and a deeper understanding of the human experience. For me, it is making the most of the time that I am allotted as a human being. So time, I think it's important to comment on, as I comprehend it, is a fundamental aspect of this universe. It's in all of Einstein's equations.

Time has continuously progressed since the presumed beginning of time, which we named the beginning of time in this galaxy. The concept of time for us is deeply intertwined with the nature of space and the expansion of this galaxy. often frame that according to our understanding, the universe originated from a big bang 13.8 billion years ago. And since that point, time

has flowed continuously, making the passage of events and allowing for environmental and societal processes and changes to unfold over a timeline. So it's important to note that our perception of time can be based on our frame of reference and the conditions we experience. I thought it was helpful for to reference an instance in which time for me slows down. And that would be laying on my back staring at the clouds.

That would be a hot yoga class stretching and crawling through each position like a supple cheetah. It could be a long sensual kiss or it could be a hot bath with minerals. Well, something like a three-day wellness event or a speech that I've been preparing three months, it goes by in an instant, in a blink. I said, my God, how did that go so fast? And so it's funny, our perception of time.

Freddie Kimmel (02:59.653)
But the flow, the fundamental flow of time, from my understanding, remains constant across this universe. I don't think that time dies. I think it continues on. And the reason why I say all of this is because last month I had three friends pass away in their 40s and their 50s, which feels incredibly young to me because I'm 45. Generally, I wasn't extremely close to any of them at the moment, but I had shared

very rich life experiences with these people. One, we had taken two hundreds of car rides to varsity soccer games and soccer camps. Another, I had taken over the costumes for my first Broadway tour of Annie Get Your Gun. One, we had performed together as singing waiters in Times Square. And each loss, it feels so tragic and heart wrenching. And I'm often left with this feeling of, feel numb.

I feel numb in the face of what feels like an island of grief, which I'm not sure how to navigate or what to do about it. so writing and then in turn, podcasting has been very cathartic for me. And again, to be clear to my understanding, the deceased, which I just mentioned, they are not sad. They're dead. And the only comparison I can make is I don't remember being angry or vengeful about not being born.

in 1978 when I first cried out for air and attention. I don't know what was going on. I've heard this beautiful thought process of, or a working theory that death and birth are simultaneous instances of belonging and separation. Death and birth are simultaneous instances of belonging and separation. I'm still pulling that one apart. I've been feeling into that the responsibility to examine death

or the significance of death falls on me. It's important to me to understand and it is definitely a blind spot that I don't dedicate a lot of time to, mostly because it scares me. And my intention is not to dwell on the sadness of loss, but to understand more or less the importance of life. Learning from my mistakes, making the most of my time that I am granted here, regardless of its duration.

Freddie Kimmel (05:23.707)
So I envision a series of these podcasts looking at a death. So this is Death Gassed, episode number one. I intend to understand how and why we die and why the process is ignored and unexplored. In the field of wellness, I often observe a trend where longevity, anti-aging, and elite performance are overshadowed. That's where the focus is. The ritualistic process of death and grieving is often pushed to the side until one has to do it.

There seems to be very little time dedicated to honoring those who have passed and a significant, more or less an amount of money, research time is invested into evading the inevitable occurrence of death. Cloning, gene editing, young blood plasma infusions. If you don't know what these are, it's aging backwards. And I appreciate the concept of living the remainder of my time free from disease and chronic illness. I believe

it is also necessary to strike a healthy balance. So I thought in this episode, it might be helpful to exemplify how and why the majority of individuals fall within the bell curve of mortality. So no surprise, maybe to anyone, heart disease stands as the leading cause of death, accounting for about 27 % of total U.S. deaths in 2020. Cancer follows as a close second, responsible for 18 % of deaths.

So together between heart disease and cancer, these two causes accounted for more than 1.5 million deaths in 2020. That is nearly half, almost 46 % of the total 3.4 million deaths nationwide. Helpful to know. So in 2020, heart disease alone accounted for one in four deaths in the US, while cancer claimed 619,000 deaths, one in five deaths. So following these causes,

There's a significant drop off after the first big two. And the next one I think is external causes accidents, which is 8.4%. And then we have a little lower than that. have nervous system disorders, Alzheimer's, running out the top five representing 7.8 % deaths in 2020. So nervous system disorders is 7.8%. It's really interesting to think about.

Freddie Kimmel (07:42.844)
You know, a lot of things we fear that I fear anyway, you I talk about, you know, we talk about the dangers of non-native electromagnetic fields. Nowhere is that on the list. However, it stands to argue, does the presence of an electromagnetic non-native field drive heart disease? It doesn't look like it, but I just thought the list was interesting. You know, again, it feels morbid, but I found value in exploring why people die. Now, I'd just like to mention on a couple of things that I found very helpful in processing. Number one, I said writing.

writing out an experience, who I lost, what they meant to me, honoring their time, reaching out to some of their family members and friends and saying how my heart went out to the pain that they're feeling and celebrating their lives. I found it very helpful to reach out to friends and community and again, share what I'm going through, whether that's in a podcast or again, writing on social media, picking up the phone.

Another way that I've allowed my emotions to flow or be released is that I am dedicating much more time to walking meditations and engaging in outdoor activities. As bad as things feel, they feel worse when I sit inside. They feel worse when I'm on my phone. They feel worse when I binge television. If I get up and walk and I move and I can move through the emotions, E-motion, energy in motion.

It takes the pressure off 10%, 15%. Sometimes I get these huge shifts and I'm like, oh my God, I feel normal today. But it's pretty constant. And another way, again, I'm exploring this topic of death and listening to experts speak about death to better understand its role in life. I find deep value in gratitude journaling and writing down what I had today, my experiences, what I'm grateful for, what I

I'm so blessed to have in my life. And then I think the other thing I want to end is a fun fact. I started looking about being present in the present moment and time. there was this great quote that said, every person living on earth is living in the past as explained by Marcelo Gleiser. And this might sound like a plot of a scientific time travel movie, but it's actually a fact.

Freddie Kimmel (10:09.169)
human biology and the complexities of time drive this. So our brains don't actually perceive events until about 80 milliseconds after they have occurred. The fine line between the past and the present is one reason why some physicists argue that now doesn't exist and that the present moment is nothing more than illusion. Now, whether that is valid, it sounds valid to me.

And if anybody wants to argue that, would invite that through any of the normal channels, beautifullybroken.world. Please write me in and add your thoughts. It still supports all the work that we reference on the podcast as far as going within and having an understanding of our response times. If there isn't a now and everything is 80 milliseconds after the fact, what greater superpower

then have an understanding of your response to events. It's beautiful. The last idea or working concept I want to go with is the value of death to create value in life. And I'm not going to use the image I have been referencing ad nauseam, this image that nature doesn't do binary, it's, there's thousands of shades and blues and yellows and pink. There's no normal. There's just spectrums and waves. And I do like the idea of waves that continually come from the ocean.

And you could easily ask a child, you could say, well, here's a saw blade. And what's the most important part of that blade to cut the wood? And it might be easy to say, well, you need the tip of the saw tooth, you need the sharp point. But that saw blade is going to be very ineffective dragging it back and forth over a piece of lumber to cut through a log unless it has the trough between the sequential blade saw tooth. And I love this visual image because to fully

be alive, we need to embrace and talk about and learn about death. So this is the shortest episode I've ever done. I love you guys so much. if you find beauty in this, if you find value, please share it with friends and reach out to me if I can be of service in any way. Big love.

Freddie Kimmel (12:27.145)
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Freddie Kimmel (14:23.967)
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The information on this podcast is for educational purposes only. By listening, you agree not to use the information found here as medical advice to treat any medical condition in yourself or others. Always consult your own physician for any medical issues that you might be having. Our closing, the world is shifting. We need you at your very best. So take the steps today to always be upgrading. Remember, while life is pain,

Putting the fractured pieces back together is a beautiful process. I love ya. I'm your host, Freddie Kimmel.