Bevival: Exit Interviews

Weller explains that grief is a core emotion of the human experience that seeks to be witnessed rather than solved. He highlights the importance of community and ritual in navigating its weight, describing grief as "feral" and urging us to embrace its wildness to foster emotional and spiritual growth. Weller underscores how grief and beauty coexist, deepening our appreciation and gratitude, especially as younger generations face profound, unique losses.

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Nunez’s work presents life and dying as inherently chaotic processes, often defying expectations. Her writing illustrates the tension between control and uncertainty, especially in end-of-life decisions and humanity’s failure to face grim realities. Her 2020 novel,What Are You Going Through, was adapted into Pedro Almodovar's 2024 film titled, The Room Next Door, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore.

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Known for her unique mix of curiosity, honesty, intimacy and decades of hosting experience, Diane Rehm's weekly interview program brings many of the nation’s prominent newsmakers, journalists, artists and thinkers to talk on the biggest issues of the day, with a focus on cutting through the noise in Washington to reveal the issues beneath the politics.

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Writing From The Heart: Finding Your Own Voice is a workshop that is nurturing for the beginning writer and a jump-start for the burnt-out professional. You will take home your powerful one-of-a-kind golden voice filled with self-esteem, honor and joy.

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Peters identifies four types of SDEs- Sensing a presence during a death, Witnessing phenomena like lights or spirits, Accompanying the dying into the afterlife, and Assisting in their transition. Peters recounts his own SDE with his father, which brought healing through a vivid life review and strengthened continuing bonds—a concept he champions over “letting go.” Through his Shared Crossing Project, he gathers research to destigmatize SDEs and integrate them into end-of-life care, emphasizing how mindfulness enhances receptivity to these profound experiences.

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When Joanne Jacobson’s writing about her mother’s respiratory illness was interrupted by her own diagnosis of a rare blood disorder, her perspective profoundly altered. Every Last Breath follows these two chronic illnesses as they become unexpectedly intertwined. As chronic illness blurs the distinction between illness and wellness, she discovers how a lifetime of relapse and remission can invite transformation.

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Barbara Becker invites readers to live with death in mind and encouraging acceptance of impermanence by broadening the concept of loss to include experiences like divorce, becoming an empty nester, or losing cherished possessions. Drawing from hospice work, she highlights the power of presence and the resilience symbolized by heartwood, where loss sustains growth. Inspired by nature’s cycles and Atisha’s Nine Contemplations of Death, she reflects on how mindfulness deepens understanding of life’s fragility.

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Koshin has served as the co-director of Contemplative Care Services of the Department of Integrative Medicine and as the chaplaincy supervisor for the Pain and Palliative Care Department at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, where he also served on the Medical Ethics Committee for eighteen years. With his husband, Chodo Campbell, he co-founded the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, an educational non-profit dedicated to integrating contemplative approaches to care with contemporary medicine.

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Dr. Dugdale reminds us to get in touch with our sense of finitude- our inevitable impermanence by embracing death literacy as a practice that will help everyone live better and die well.

"In this profound and compassionate book about death and its nearness, Dugdale demystifies one of the essential mysteries of our time." - Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Gene.

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Coombs Lee joined the Oregon Right to Die Political Action Committee that had already been working on draft bills, serving as spokesperson for the group through two statewide campaigns and 10 years defending against attacks on the nation's first Death with Dignity law in both the judicial and legislative arenas.

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