
I Chose To Stay | The Mortals
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

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Hosted by Nathan Morris · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 168 episodes
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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. Tune in for gripping, emotional, and mysterious episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. #TrueStories #NearDeath #Unexplained #Podcast
Nathan Morris hosts The Mortals, a society show with 168 episodes published.

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

There was a stretch of time where I did not want to be here anymore. Not in a dramatic way. In a quiet, tired, hopeless way.I want to tell you how I got there, because I think a lot of you know how it happens. It doesn't

Last night The Mortals Live did something it's never done before — we went live on two platforms at once. Katharine and Chris of As The Hearse Turns pulled up a chair, and what followed was the kind of conversation only

He was blinded as a child, preached and sang on Texas street corners for coins, and died penniless in the ashes of his own burned house. They buried him in a grave with no name. Thirty-two years later, NASA bolted his wo

"Pick a lane." I've heard it my whole life — funeral director, musician, divorced dad, creator — like one of them has to cancel out the others. Tonight I'm done apologizing for being all of them.This is The Mortals Live.

Tonight on The Mortals: the funeral songs that undo an entire room — and the one thing almost nobody thinks about. It's not which song you play. It's when. A funeral director and songwriter on grief, the music that says

He was blind. He was self-taught. And for nearly thirty years he stood on a sidewalk on 6th Avenue in Manhattan dressed like a Viking — cloak, horned helmet, spear — while the city hurried past and called him a curiosity

He was blind. He was self-taught. And for nearly thirty years he stood on a sidewalk on 6th Avenue in Manhattan dressed like a Viking — cloak, horned helmet, spear — while the city hurried past and called him a curiosity

A funeral director on what happens after you put something into the world and the room stays quiet. The story of Sixto Rodriguez — who released two albums into total silence, went back to demolition work for 25 years, an

A funeral director on what happens after you put something into the world and the room stays quiet. The story of Sixto Rodriguez — who released two albums into total silence, went back to demolition work for 25 years, an

There's a man who never had a near-death experience. He had something more honest. He had a slow death he could watch coming. And he wrote it all down before the cancer took him at 37.His name was Paul Kalanithi. Neurosu

There's a man who never had a near-death experience. He had something more honest. He had a slow death he could watch coming. And he wrote it all down before the cancer took him at 37.His name was Paul Kalanithi. Neurosu

0:00 Cold open — sit down, grab the tea 2:00 Opening statement: October 1956, Chicago — Vivian Maier walks down a sidewalk 6:00 The 150,000 photographs nobody ever saw 13:00 Why did she do it? The question I keep sitting

0:00 Cold open — sit down, grab the tea 2:00 Opening statement: October 1956, Chicago — Vivian Maier walks down a sidewalk 6:00 The 150,000 photographs nobody ever saw 13:00 Why did she do it? The question I keep sitting

0:00 Welcome back — and the boo-boo from last week 2:45 The garage sale that worked because the sign said "good stuff, not junk" 7:00 Caramels, ASMR, and stepping outside the comfort zone 10:30 Derby week chaos in Louisv

0:00 Welcome back — and the boo-boo from last week 2:45 The garage sale that worked because the sign said "good stuff, not junk" 7:00 Caramels, ASMR, and stepping outside the comfort zone 10:30 Derby week chaos in Louisv

0:00 Welcome — three weeks in a row 2:40 Opening statement: the person who shows up on a random Tuesday 8:15 Why presence costs something — and why nobody eulogizes it 13:00 The first transfer I ever did — the hoarder's

0:00 Welcome — three weeks in a row 2:40 Opening statement: the person who shows up on a random Tuesday 8:15 Why presence costs something — and why nobody eulogizes it 13:00 The first transfer I ever did — the hoarder's

0:00 You came back — Holy Week opens 3:15 Opening statement: the table the world holds its breath for 8:00 Your "chair" stories from last week 12:30 Terminal lucidity — the last normal night 18:45 Good Friday in funeral

0:00 You came back — Holy Week opens 3:15 Opening statement: the table the world holds its breath for 8:00 Your "chair" stories from last week 12:30 Terminal lucidity — the last normal night 18:45 Good Friday in funeral
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