Celestial discharge, in medical slang, refers to a patient’s death. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Celestial Discharge”
I ran into my friend Jeff Sanchez the other day at the grocery store.
And he’s a nurse, and I always ask him if he’s got any medical slang for me.
And he told me the latest one he’s thinking about these days is celestial discharge.
Celestial discharge. Is that somebody who dies?
It is indeed.
Yeah.
It’s a thing, too.
That’s kind of nice.
I mean, for all the euphemisms we have for dying, that’s probably one of the nicer ones.
Yeah.
