I'm Still Here
Aug 24, 2026 · 44 min · 12 segments
In this episode of *Dead on Earth*, we sit down with Taylor Ortiz-Hershman for a deeply moving conversation about her brother, Ben's battle with, and ultimate passing from, an Adderall…
Aug 24, 2026 · 44 min · 12 segments
In this episode of *Dead on Earth*, we sit down with Taylor Ortiz-Hershman for a deeply moving conversation about her brother, Ben's battle with, and ultimate passing from, an Adderall…
I think the The fact that he really wanted your parents to like love and appreciate the music that he loved.
Like it's so sweet to have a young man like really like want to be able to bond over music in that way.
I just I that just really is such a beautiful little slice of him that I think.
like you've said a few times now that he was a deep feeler and that just really speaks to that
We all think that when someone dies, that that's the worst thing that the family is dealing with.
You feel like it should, you know? I remember in the days afterwards, it's like, why are people getting groceries? Like, don't they know? Yeah.
And I mean, on the heels, like a traumatic birth, like I feel like that takes years to process on its own.
Yeah, it just sounds like there's so much... trauma, so much to contend with.
I've realized this over the last couple of years that my life really was very easy for, you know, 30 years.
I think it's funny that we think just as a culture, we think that there is this Well, oh, the first kid was so easy.
So the second kid's got to be hard or like, or things have been so easy for the first part of my life.
I think the The fact that he really wanted your parents to like love and appreciate the music that he loved.
Like it's so sweet to have a young man like really like want to be able to bond over music in that way.
I just I that just really is such a beautiful little slice of him that I think.
like you've said a few times now that he was a deep feeler and that just really speaks to that
We all think that when someone dies, that that's the worst thing that the family is dealing with.
You feel like it should, you know? I remember in the days afterwards, it's like, why are people getting groceries? Like, don't they know? Yeah.
And I mean, on the heels, like a traumatic birth, like I feel like that takes years to process on its own.
Yeah, it just sounds like there's so much... trauma, so much to contend with.
I've realized this over the last couple of years that my life really was very easy for, you know, 30 years.
I think it's funny that we think just as a culture, we think that there is this Well, oh, the first kid was so easy.
So the second kid's got to be hard or like, or things have been so easy for the first part of my life.
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