
Jools Barsky
Co-founder of the global Death Cafe movement and an NHS doctor in the East Midlands, UK.
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Aug 22, 2026
Death and Cake
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16:41speaker_2ADVERTISER
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Jools BarskyGUEST
John had been feeling unwell for a couple of weeks, um, assuming it was a kind of flu bug, and then, uh, he collapsed very suddenly after taking his children to a swimming class.

Jools BarskyGUEST
So we all rushed over to the hospital where he was, and we were with him whilst he was on life support.

Jools BarskyGUEST
Um, he'd had a brain hemorrhage as a result of a rare form of leukemia called acute promyelocytic leukemia, which would have been treatable if they'd discovered s- the source of the bleeding before it had caused catastrophic damage by result of a stroke.

Jools BarskyGUEST
So my mom and I were with John, and I think a lot of it was, for me anyway, knowing what John would have been wanting at that point, and then because of Death Cafe, he'd already created this vast network of people who knew about him and had been on, you know, the front cover of The New York Times and had been in The Huffington Post.
5 MINS LATER
23:07
And I, I'm curious, like, one, have you encountered these spaces which seem to be growing in the US, and two, like, what do you think about that counterweight to what I think is, like, the really beautiful work you're doing at Death Cafe?

Jools BarskyGUEST
So there's, there's people like Brian Johnson, right, who are trying to live for as long as possible, and they're dedicating their life to extension of their physiological abilities.
Death and Cake
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17:40Hayes DavenportADVERTISER
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Jools BarskyGUEST
John had been feeling unwell for a couple of weeks, um, assuming it was a kind of flu bug, and then, uh, he collapsed very suddenly after taking his children to a swimming class.

Jools BarskyGUEST
So we all rushed over to the hospital where he was, and we were with him whilst he was on life support.

Jools BarskyGUEST
Um, he'd had a brain hemorrhage as a result of a rare form of leukemia called acute promyelocytic leukemia, which would have been treatable if they'd discovered s- the source of the bleeding before it had caused catastrophic damage by result of a stroke.

Jools BarskyGUEST
So my mom and I were with John, and I think a lot of it was, for me anyway, knowing what John would have been wanting at that point.

Jools BarskyGUEST
And then because of Death Cafe, he'd already created this vast network of people who knew about him and had been on, you know, the front cover of The New York Times and had been in The Huffington Post.
5 MINS LATER
24:08
And I, I'm curious, like, one, have you encountered these spaces which seem to be growing in the US, and two, like, what do you think about that counterweight to what I think is, like, the really beautiful work you're doing at Death Cafe?
