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The Mortals

The Mortals

著者： Nathan Morris
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A funeral director who writes pop songs sits down every Tuesday night and says the things most people are afraid to feel. Death, fatherhood, burnout, songwriting, walking away from the career that defined you, and figuring out what comes after. The Mortals is a live conversation hosted by Nathan Morris — no script, no guests most weeks, just one man in a room being honest about what it means to be alive. New episodes every Wednesday.Nathan Morris 社会科学
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  • The Doctor Who Wrote His Own Death — Paul Kalanithi, NDEs, And What I've Actually Seen

    The Doctor Who Wrote His Own Death — Paul Kalanithi, NDEs, And What I've Actually Seen
    2026/05/14
    There's a man who never had a near-death experience. He had something more honest. He had a slow death he could watch coming. And he wrote it all down before the cancer took him at 37.His name was Paul Kalanithi. Neurosurgery resident at Stanford. Eight months from finishing the longest training in medicine. Diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer he'd never earned. He went back to the operating room until his hands shook. He and his wife had a daughter anyway. He wrote a book about what dying does to a life. He died before he could finish it.Tonight we start there — with the man who told the truth on his way out — and then I'm going to tell you what I've actually seen as a funeral director, from this side of the door. People floating above their bodies. Lights at the end of tunnels. Loved ones who've already passed showing up at the foot of the bed. Stories I don't have a framework for. Stories that don't fit anywhere except in the room I stand in.This is The Mortals — Episode #231. Near-Death Experiences From A Funeral Director's Perspective.— NathanCHAPTERS0:00 Cold open — happy belated Mother's Day & tonight's setup2:30 Meet Paul Kalanithi — the writer who became a neurosurgeon5:25 Stage 4 at 36 — eight months from finishing residency8:20 22 months — what Paul did with the time he had left13:35 When Breath Becomes Air — Lucy finishes the book15:40 The funeral director's version of the same question20:00 Joe Rogan said funerals are a scam — here's my answer31:30 Socials, AI, and the song I'm finally releasing37:00 Don't wait — go do the thingWatch live every Tuesday at 7 PM ET. Subscribe so you don't miss next week.🛍 Shop my suits, gear & favorites → stan.store/thenathanmorris🕯 Join The Mortals community → stan.store/thenathanmorris🎙 Listen to the podcast → stan.store/thenathanmorris📩 Get the Sunday letter → stan.store/thenathanmorris#themortals #nathanmorris #neardeathexperience #funeraldirector #paulkalanithi #whenbreathbecomesair #grief #podcast
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  • The Work Nobody Will Clap For — Vivian Maier and the Room with the Door Closed | The Mortals w/ Nathan Morris #230

    The Work Nobody Will Clap For — Vivian Maier and the Room with the Door Closed | The Mortals w/ Nathan Morris #230
    2026/05/11

    0:00 Cold open — sit down, grab the tea

    2:00 Opening statement: October 1956, Chicago — Vivian Maier walks down a sidewalk

    6:00 The 150,000 photographs nobody ever saw

    13:00 Why did she do it? The question I keep sitting with

    15:30 The room with the door closed — this episode's thesis

    17:30 My grandfather, the double Windsor knot, and the mundane that mattered

    23:00 Grief as fuel — what Vivian and I have in common

    29:00 Nixon, Watergate, and dying without your name cleared

    34:00 Why I keep writing songs that nobody might ever hear

    43:00 The TikTok story: showing up every day for three years even when I couldn't walk

    52:00 Reframing — your suffering is the storage locker

    57:00 Mortals shoutouts + the next single artwork vote

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    What if the most important work you'll ever do is work nobody is going to clap for?

    This week on The Mortals Live, I tell the story of Vivian Maier — the Chicago nanny who walked the streets for 40 years with a camera around her neck, took 150,000 photographs, never developed almost any of them, never showed them to anyone, and died alone in 2009 not knowing she would become one of the greatest American photographers of the 20th century.

    I think about her a lot. Because there is a room you stand in alone — the one with the door closed — where the only witness to the work is you. The recovery. The marriage. The child you're raising. The song you can't stop writing. The grief you're carrying.

    Nobody is paying for it. Nobody is thanking you. Nobody might ever see it.

    But the work is the work. And the recognition is beside the point.

    This is for the people in that room.

    Tuesdays at 7pm EST.

    JOIN THE MORTALS — first looks, first listens, producer credits on the next single: https://nathanmorrismusic.com/supporters

    "Feel Anything" — out now wherever you stream music.

    Nathan Morris is a singer-songwriter and former funeral director. The Mortals is a weekly conversation about grief, music, and the people who keep doing the work in the room with the door closed.

    #TheMortals #NathanMorris #VivianMaier #Grief #FuneralDirector #LifeAfterLoss #Mortality #Podcast
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  • The Room After The Room | The Mortals w/ Nathan Morris #229

    The Room After The Room | The Mortals w/ Nathan Morris #229
    2026/05/10

    0:00 Welcome back — and the boo-boo from last week

    2:45 The garage sale that worked because the sign said "good stuff, not junk"

    7:00 Caramels, ASMR, and stepping outside the comfort zone

    10:30 Derby week chaos in Louisville — and the 8:47 PM start time

    14:15 Opening statement: Margaret, Earl, and the room after the room

    24:00 Funeral directors don't hum in empty chapels (except they do)

    32:00 The voice memo that became a song I haven't finished

    36:30 Do I miss dead people? The honest answer.

    41:00 Performing vs. being authentic — when the curtain closes

    47:30 The box that opened and won't close

    52:00 The 18-year-old who messaged about my videos changing his path

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    What happens in the room after the room?

    After 228 episodes and a season away, Nathan Morris returns with the question that won't leave him alone — what waits on the other side of the threshold we all eventually cross?

    The Mortals is a weekly conversation about death, near-death, and the quiet thread connecting every breath to the next. Hosted by a former funeral director who's helped lay hundreds of people to rest — and lived to write songs about it.

    New episodes drop every Tuesday at 7 PM ET.

    Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3OEFJ4GX7ylWSMk4p0dz82

    Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mortals/id1436094260

    Nathan's music: https://nathanmorrismusic.com

    #TheMortals #NathanMorris #NearDeathExperience #LifeAfterLoss #FuneralDirector #Grief #Mortality #Podcast
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    56 分
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