Influencing Death
Reframing Dying for Better Living
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Influencing Death
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Narrated by:
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Penny Hawkins Smith RN
About this listen
A hospice nurse’s unflinching look at life, death, and redemption.
Death is undeniable and unavoidable. We must accept it; there is no other choice. But coming to terms with our mortality can profoundly influence how we live—and how we die. Having been a hospice nurse for decades, Penny Hawkins Smith is an expert on death and dying. As a recovering alcoholic and former drug addict, she knows what it means to change course and become a meaningful contributor to society. Through her work with death, Penny found her purpose in life.
In Influencing Death, Penny brings transparency and levity to the grim topic of death while revealing truths about the reckless past that influenced her decision to become a hospice nurse. Using down-to-earth, compassionate storytelling, she transports listeners into the room with dying people and their families, laying bare the raw and real human emotions and behaviors people have when life and death are hanging in the balance.
Weaving together dual narratives of death and life, Penny challenges us to see how embracing our own mortality—and the mortality of the people we love—can help us live more fully and approach the end of life with greater acceptance, grace, and peace.
©2025 Penny Hawkins Smith (P)2025 Dreamscape MediaWhat listeners say about Influencing Death
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- Anonymous User
- 28-01-2025
So many important lessons!
I absolutely loved this book. I follow Penny on Instagram and I thought that she would have a good story to tell. Well, she has many entertaining stories and so much wisdom to share. I loved it and listened to it in a day!
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- Anonymous User
- 23-01-2025
Honest and reassuring
Not only does Penny share her own story with honesty, it’s a journey of where you can end up after telling your truth to yourself.
This book is also a story demystifying death and what it means to be in the hospice system.
She’s right! Death needs to be spoken about and made culturally ok so that loved ones can have the best opportunity to go on that journey with their person.
The word compassion comes to mind.
Thanks Penny for your sharing and educating.
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