James Sexton

Like you would just stop buying a lot of what they're selling.

I think that we deny death because it's a great mystery.

We're terrified of it.

And we culturally just reaffirm it over and over by hiding it from people.

Here's a hot take.

I think when you turn 18, you should have to do a year or two of mandatory hospice volunteering.

I think if you spent time with the terminally ill when you were 18, 19 years old, it changed my entire way of viewing the world.

Yeah, you just realize that just there's so much of this shit doesn't matter.

Like spend time with people that are dying.

They don't really, all their stuff is a great big pile of nothing.

All that they can talk about is the people that they love, the connections that they made, the experiences that they had that were beautiful or painful.

And you, when you're around them, you could have a lot of stuff going on in your day.

but I would do like a hospice visit.

And by the way, like as a hospice volunteer, you don't like sit and talk about, you know, how are you feeling about the fact you're dying?

Very rarely did anybody want to talk about the fact that they were dying.

That was just a, that was a reality they couldn't deny.

They're in a hospital bed in their living room a lot of the time.

They wanted to talk about their life.

They wanted to talk about what's going on with the Yankees.

They wanted to talk about other things.