{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"225. Lisa Smartt \u2013 Literary Specialist \/ Author \/ Researcher of the Unravelling - Being of Service","description":"Welcome back to Behind Greatness. We speak with Lisa who joins us from her new abode in Emerald Isle. Lisa is the author of Words at the Threshold. Her book is a fascinating compendium of 7 years\u2019 research on (and collection of) people\u2019s last words. We are charmed by Lisa\u2019s casual and playful demeanour from the get-go. We learn about her research, her own deeply personal experiences with dying loved ones and the emotional wisdom of a particular fireman who helped save a moment. Lisa shared with us her ideas about the consensuality of language, humour in dying, the openness and curiosity of our former childhoods that help to book-end \u2013 and Herb. The conversation reaches new depths, touching upon Lisa\u2019s personal experience with a certain kind of evil that we started to cover in the previous episode with Alex \u2026 and what Lisa has found with the unravelling of speech.   My modality is broken. Wow.   Episodes mentioned: Dr. Bruce Greysen (ep 69) re NDE research, Rey Hernandez (ep 153, 154) re modalities, Alex Gomez-Marin (ep 224), Emmeline Villar (ep 173).   Lisa, \u00b7       Website: https:\/\/www.finalwordsproject.org\/ \u00b7       Book: Words at the Threshold: What We Say as We're Nearing Death - https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Words-Threshold-What-Nearing-Death\/dp\/1608684601\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NE8R7WK669EI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.SxBuIw0YM55aV-Q6BRZ-wj2FO3qssGQ1A1Yvl6UOatrvjCLHQpYkH7DfMOBs5dPE-84vsFaW-S_NcOirrDCH-FgKwjipxojuqQqCy5nRMHs0IZ4IxCFKPqLkJXA4i_iJwpANASfHo13qLJajDT6rnXGFrEY0ROAkDxQNKpFOFn9AaAi9uIIZpkVesPn7D2qT.H1Js2OEmpHy7WdRBXncQaVY2u5vu9a8nDIagB6C4qWE&dib_tag=se&keywords=lisa+smartt&qid=1765497528&sprefix=lisa+smart%2Caps%2C172&sr=8-1   Book mentioned: \u00b7       Final Gifts: Understanding and Helping the Dying - Callaghan, Maggie; Kelley, Patricia: https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Final-Gifts-Understanding-Special-Awareness-ebook\/dp\/B005UDIC3E\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TS5F8EG1IJ7E&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dDmAgW1pouc6U81D-LheBQ.h_lFExdSCcnEuB631eybIfS44fI2ZHc8l8LOzLUwgHU&dib_tag=se&keywords=Final+Gifts%3A+Understanding+and+Helping+the+Dying+-+Callaghan%2C+Maggie%3B+Kelley%2C+Patricia&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1765497462&sprefix=final+gifts+understanding+and+helping+the+dying+-+callaghan%2C+maggie+kelley%2C+patricia%2Caps%2C109&sr=8-1 To give to the Behind Greatness podcast, please visit here: https:\/\/behindgreatness.org. As a charity, tax receipts are issued to donors ","author_name":"Behind Greatness by Inspire North","author_url":"http:\/\/behindgreatness.libsyn.com\/website","html":"