David Kessler

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991 appearances 4 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 30 Jun

David Kessler’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And they said, because when the family wakes up the next morning, we want them to know now that your loved one has died, everything has changed.

That's witnessing grief.

Now that your spouse, your parent, your sibling, your child, your friend has died, all of us get everything's changed.

And people say to me so many times,

I just want mom back.

I just want my friend back.

I want dad back.

And I say, they'd love to be that person they were before also.

Here's the bad news.

They can't be that person again.

We'd have to bring someone back from the dead, and that's beyond our powers.

So they've got to accept this different life that they're in.

They're not the old them anymore.

And you have to accept your friend, your family member, not the old them either.

Be with them who they are now.

Love them who they are now.

Right where they are, even if you think they're doing it wrong, love them.

I think in our modern world, like I worked early in my career in children's hospital.

I knew children died.

The world used to be full of bereaved parents.

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