Love, Death & the Afterlife in the ICU, with Dr. Adam Rizvi

Welcome to the Spirit Sisters Podcast, where we gather around the virtual hearth to share our life journeys and the spiritual encounters that shape us. My guest today is Dr. Adam Rizvi—a critical care physician whose personal journey with grief opened the door to experiences his scientific training couldn’t explain. Adam shares many of these astounding moments at the bedside of patients in his beautiful book, Love Does Not Know Death. He recounts some of these in our conversation, which I hope you’ll love. Adam has come to see death as “an initiation” that can open us to love, to forgiveness, and to eternal connection. Some of the highlights of our conversation include the transformative power of afterlife encounters, about what it means to face death, and about how love doesn’t end when someone dies. At the end, he shared insights about how love continues and communication continues, that I found extraordinarily beautiful and supportive. If you’re listening while missing someone you love, you’re especially in my heart, and I hope there’s something nourishing here for you. Connect with Adam and learn more about his book here: Read more of Adam’s writing on Substack: Connect with me: Discover Karina's app, Reconnect & Create: Join Karina on Substack: Email Karina at karina.machado.author@gmail.com Connect with Karina on Facebook: Connect with Karina on Instagram: Find the audio versions of my three books — Spirit Sisters, Where Spirits Dwell and Love Never Dies – (all narrated by me) at Audible: Show theme music: Mysterious by MusicPond, from Audio Jungle Acknowledgment of Country: I acknowledge the Dharawal people, Traditional Custodians of the lands in NSW, Australia, where I live and record Spirit Sisters, and I recognise their continuing connection to lands, waters and community. I pay respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past, present and emerging.

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Love, Death & the Afterlife in the ICU, with Dr. Adam Rizvi is an episode from Spirit Sisters - the podcast by Karina Machado.

This episode is 77:08 long.

This episode was published on Mar 29, 2026.

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