When We Die Talks
By Zach Ancell
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Episodes: 72
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When We Die Talks is a collection of real conversations with real people about death, meaning, and what it’s like to be human.
Each week, host Zach Ancell speaks with an anonymous caller. It begins with one question: What do you think happens when we die? From there, the conversation goes wherever it goes. Belief. Doubt. Loss. Relief. Fear. Sometimes even laughter.
These aren’t experts or public figures. Just everyday people saying the quiet parts out loud. The result is raw, unpredictable, and deeply human.
New anonymous calls every Wednesday.
Want to add your voice? Apply to be a caller at whenwedietalks.com. Leave a voicemail and share a belief, a question, or a moment you can’t shake about death: 971-328-0864.
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Anonymous #35 — How Do You Keep Loving People When You're the One They're Going to Lose?
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May 12, 2026 |
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Anonymous #34 — Can The Losses That Broke You As A Teenager Also Be The Things That Made You?
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May 05, 2026 |
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Bonus — Don Sires: Exit Interview
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Anonymous #33 — Why Does Some Grief Get to Be Spoken Out Loud and Some Doesn't?
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Anonymous #32 — What Do You Do With a Faith That Can't Explain the Worst Thing That Happened to You?
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Anonymous #31 — What Happens If There's No 'You' Left to Be Afraid of Death?
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Anonymous #30 — What Happens to a Family That Grief Breaks?
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Anonymous #29 — Can Having Parkinson's Teach You How to Live?
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Anonymous #28 — Do the People Who Sit With Death Every Day Know Something the Rest of Us Don't?
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Anonymous #27 — Is the Fear of Death Worse Than Death Itself?
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Anonymous #26 — Are We Making Death Harder by Refusing to Accept It?
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Anonymous #25 — How Do You Love Someone You Know You're Going to Lose?
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Anonymous #24 — What Happens to Your Beliefs About Death When You Can't Trust Your Own Mind?
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Anonymous #23 — Does Surviving Two Heart Attacks Change the Way You See Death?
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Anonymous #22 — What Do You Tell a Child Who Asks If They're Going to Die?
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Anonymous #21 — How Do You Make Peace With a Death That Was Never Supposed to Happen?
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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Anonymous #20 — Is It Grief or Is It Them Trying to Tell You They're Still There?
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Saturday Contemplation - A Year You’ll Never Get Back
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Dec 20, 2025 |
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Anonymous #19 — What Do Four NDEs Actually Teach You About Death?
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Saturday Contemplation - Claiming the Life That's Yours
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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Anonymous #18 — How Do You Find Your Own Beliefs About Death When You Were Given Someone Else's?
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Saturday Contemplation – Letting Things Stay Unfinished
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Anonymous #17 — Does the Guilt of an Unfinished Relationship Ever Go Away?
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Saturday Contemplation - The Clock We Can’t See
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Anonymous #16 — What Does It Take to Live Fully When You Know the Brain Cancer Will Return?
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Saturday Contemplation - Why We Contemplate Death
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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Anonymous #15 — What Happens When the Person You Lost Didn't Actually Die?
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Saturday Contemplation - Finding Wonder in the Everyday
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Anonymous #14 — Is It Possible for a Father to Make Peace With the Death of His Son?
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Saturday Contemplation - The Things We Don’t Notice
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Nov 01, 2025 |
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Saturday Contemplation - Learning to Let Go
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Anonymous #13 — When Two Cultures Teach You Completely Different Things About Grief, Which One Do You Follow?
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Saturday Contemplation – Don’t Wait to Live
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Anonymous #12 — Can Chronic Illness Actually Teach You to Be More Grateful for Being Alive?
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Saturday Contemplation – If You Had One Year Left
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Anonymous #11 — If Someone Had an NDE and Returned With a Message, Would You Believe Them?
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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Saturday Contemplation – Each Breath Brings Us Closer
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Bonus — A Year of Talking About Death and What It Did for Me
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Anonymous #10 — Can Accepting How Small You Are Actually Set You Free?
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Anonymous #9 — What If Nature Can Teach You About Death in Ways Religion Can't?
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Sep 15, 2025 |
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Anonymous #8 — Can You Actually Prepare Yourself for Loss Before It Happens?
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Sep 08, 2025 |
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Anonymous #7 — Is It Possible for a Skeptic's Death to Restore Your Faith in What Comes After?
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Anonymous #6 — Has the Fear of Death Ever Just... Not Applied to You?
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Anonymous #5 — When It's Your Brother Dying, Does Being a Death Doula Help or Hurt?
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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Anonymous #4 — What Happens When Sudden Loss Turns You Into a Ghost In Your Own Life?
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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Anonymous #3 — What If You've Been Guiding People Through Death Your Whole Life Without Knowing It?
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Anonymous #2 — Is It Possible to Make Peace With a Loss You Saw Coming but Couldn't Stop?
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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Anonymous #1 — Could "Everything Will Be Okay" Be the Only Truth We Need About Death?
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Bonus — The Shift to Anonymous: What Season 2 Is About
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Brynna Fish — The Worldwide Soul Web Theory of Life After Death
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Anonymous Origins — Carrying Loss and Finding Meaning
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Maura McInerney-Rowley — From Losing Her Mom to Building Tools for the Rest of Us
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Anonymous Origins — Grief, Dreams, and the Stories We Carry
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May 28, 2025 |
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Elizabeth Fournier — The Green Reaper on Death, Funerals, and Dying Differently
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May 14, 2025 |
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Anonymous Origins — Two Paths from Catholic Roots
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Ute Luppertz — On Pet Loss and Why It Hits Harder Than We Expect
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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Sara Rian — Grief Poet on Suicide Loss and the Art of Grieving Openly
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Bonus — Voicemails (Listener Messages, Part 2)
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Chris Ancell — Talking Death with Dad Over Tequila
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Zac Phillips — The Intimate Side of Loss Most People Never See
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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BONUS — Sarah Carter (Reflection)
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Sarah Carter — Losing Both Parents and Finding Peace Anyway
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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BONUS — Don Sires (Reflection)
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Don Sires — Facing ALS and Choosing to Die Without Fear
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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Barbara Solomon — A Life Spent With Death and Why She Doesn't Fear It
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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Derek Green — Huntington's Disease and the Life He Refused to Waste
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Bonus — Voicemails (Listener Messages, Part 1)
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Elizabeth Twardy — A Father's Death and the Grief That Stays
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Ryan Williams — Buddhist Perspectives on Death
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Annah Yevelenko — Living with Death in Mind
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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Zach Ancell — Why I Started Talking About Death
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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When We Die Talks - Official Trailer
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Sep 25, 2024 |