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The Mortals shares true stories of near-death experiences, miraculous rescues, unexplained phenomena, and life after loss. Host Nathan Morris—musician, mortician, and storyteller—guides you through powerful accounts that blur the line between life, death, and the unknown.
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The 92 Minutes That Saved a Stranger's Life | The Mortals (opens the original)
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He was 22, a new dad, drowning in debt, and standing on the wrong side of the rail on the Golden Gate Bridge. The only reason he's alive today is that a highway patrol sergeant named Kevin Briggs happened to be assigned to that bridge, and walked up, and stayed for 92 minutes. Tonight we talk about that story, and what it means for you. Why the people we should worry about are never the ones crying. Why "strong" is just the word we use for people we've stopped checking on. And why showing up, ev
The Tribute Machines Can't Write | The Mortals (opens the original)
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A funeral director's answer to the machines. AI tribute generators are everywhere now. Upload a photo, answer three questions, and out comes a eulogy. Clean. Fast. Forgettable. But here's what the machines will never know: the way someone's voice changed when they talked about their mother. The laugh that came out of nowhere at the arrangement table when a family remembered something small and beautiful. The silence that tells you more than any paragraph ever could. A real tribute isn't assemble
Why a Stranger's Death Can Break You | The Mortals (opens the original)
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You never met them. You never shook their hand. So why does it feel like you lost a friend when the news says they're gone?nnThis week on The Mortals, funeral director and singer-songwriter Nathan Morris sits with the grief nobody gives you permission to feel — the artist whose songs raised you, the voice that was in your kitchen for fifteen years, the stranger whose passing put you flat on the floor. It's called parasocial grief, and it is not a malfunction. It's love that only had to travel on
What a Visitation is Really For - And the Night I Almost Became One (opens the original)
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This week on The Mortals Live, we walk through what a visitation at a funeral home is really for. Not the version you see in movies. The real thing. Why we gather, what it does for the living, and how showing up for someone in grief is one of the most important things you will ever do. Then it gets personal. I share the night I almost became the one on the other side of that room. The night everything almost ended, and what kept me here. This is a conversation about presence, purpose, and the pe
I Chose To Stay | The Mortals (opens the original)
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Before my new single "Names I'll Never Lose" drops Friday, I wanted to give you the other half of it. Fifteen years as a funeral director taught me something almost nobody gets to see: exactly how much one ordinary life adds up to — because I'm standing there on the day the world does the subtraction. In this episode I tell you about a man I'll call Ray, who spent his whole life certain he didn't matter... and the room that proved him wrong. The catch? He never got to see it. So tonight I'm doin
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