Hospice nurse and TikTok star Julie McFadden breaks taboos surrounding death, helps us understand the dying process, and explains why we need to get better at discussing our mortality.

Death can be a scary subject. Most of us deliberately spend very little time thinking about death or avoid the topic altogether.

Death is an unavoidable part of life, and our reluctance to discuss it is stopping us from being able to deal with death in a positive way.

In her 2024 book Nothing To Fear, Julie McFadden uses her 20 years of experience as a hospice nurse to show us how dying can be peaceful and even beautiful.

McFadden celebrates the outpouring of love that can come from people choosing the time and place of their own death and educates us on how human bodies are built to die.