Kathrine Frich
Hospice Nurse Julie has spent her career at the bedside of the dying.
Hospice Nurse Julie has spent her career at the bedside of the dying.
After witnessing hundreds of final moments, she’s become a rare public voice on the realities of death both physical and spiritual.
With 1.7 million TikTok followers and a growing YouTube audience, her goal is simple: to normalise death, ease fear, and share the mystery of what might come next.
In her latest video, Julie opens up about what she believes really happens when we die and why she no longer fears it.
Here are the most poignant insights from her experience.
Death Feels Like a Return, Not a Departure
Julie doesn’t see death as a leap into the unknown but as a comforting return to something deeply familiar.
“I believe we are all going to a place that feels more like home than here ever could,” she says.
It’s a bold but comforting perspective from someone who’s watched countless people pass peacefully.
Rather than fear death, she describes a sense of relief that seems to greet the dying.
“The more times I’ve watched someone take their last breath,” she adds, “the more I believe this to be true.”
All Come From the Same Place
In a beautiful reflection, Julie compares dying to being born but in reverse.
She believes the experience of coming into the world and leaving it are deeply linked.
“The baby is coming from where we come from, and the person dying is going back to where we come from,” she explains.
It’s not about reaching a far-off heaven, she suggests, but returning to a state we once knew intimately before life began.
No Belief System Required
One of Julie’s most radical beliefs is that this return “home” isn’t tied to any specific religion or faith.
“It’s not a place to get into or a belief to follow,” she explains. In her view, it’s simply a natural part of being human.
She insists you don’t need to believe in anything specific to experience peace after death.
“It is just what it is,” she says something inherent, not earned.
Death Is Not the End, It’s a Welcome
Julie imagines her own passing with surprising humour and warmth.
“I’ll say, ‘Thank God I’m back,’ and then I’ll be like, ‘Why’d you keep me there so long?’”
The lightness with which she speaks of her own death is a testament to how much her work has transformed her relationship with it.
This gentle irreverence is what makes her message land so powerfully with people grieving, searching, or afraid.
A “Shared Death” Changed Her Understanding
One moment that shaped Julie’s belief came after she said goodbye to a patient she’d grown close to.
Driving away from the hospice, she suddenly felt flooded with a presence: his voice, his energy, his essence.
“All of a sudden, I could hear his voice and I could feel these feelings,” she recalled.
That moment of emotional and sensory connection after death left a permanent mark. For Julie, it felt like contact with the afterlife.
“It was comfort, joy, and exuberance,” she said, and it confirmed to her that something beautiful lies beyond.
The Afterlife Feels Like Love
Julie doesn’t claim to know what the afterlife looks like. Instead, she focuses on what it feels like.
Words she uses again and again are “peaceful,” “beautiful,” “lovely” and above all, comforting.
She believes our fear of death comes from not talking about it, from seeing it only as loss. But to her, it’s the opposite: a return to love, warmth, and wholeness.
“It won’t feel scary,” she assures. “It’ll just feel like going back to where we belong.”