Karen Dempsey
speaker
443 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 21 Jun
Karen Dempsey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I would go and sit with people for the last seven nights of their life.
And a lot of that involved speaking to people in the lead up to their death and also their families and how they were navigating death and dying.
Simultaneously, I was also working in the Rotunda, which was around birth.
And sometimes a death would come before birth.
Maternity hospitals are really complex places because you have birth and death happening.
Thankfully, fewer deaths.
And I don't want to alarm anybody that's ever listening.
But it's a fact of life and we all know it in various ways.
So I was speaking to people
about their beliefs and around life and death.
And particularly in the Rotunda.
It tended to be a younger demographic because it was women of childbearing age.
And there was one particular woman I spoke to at the wee hours of the morning, 3 or 4 a.m.
She was miscarrying and she was trying to rationalize how she was understanding this.
And she said, Karen, I didn't think I believed in God.
but I don't know where my baby is.
What do you believe?
And when she said to me, what do you believe?
I thought,
I really empathized with what she said because I was kind of similar.
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