Dying Your Way

Sean Cunningham is best known as a producer and director of horror movies, like Friday the 13th, but it is his documentary, The Nurse with the Purple Hair, that is changing how we look at death and dying. In this documentary he curiously lifts the curtain on the reality of hospice care. It is a documentary of love at the end of life. Grab a tissue!

Claire and Sean during the interview will have you considering the conversations you need to have with your own loved ones.

Click here for more information about the movie - https://www.thenursewiththepurplehair.com/

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In this episode, listeners meet Co-Founder, Terry Mepham, who is the behind the scenes force behind Dying Your Way; an innovative concept to teach death literacy globally to anyone, anywhere and anytime.

Core to the curriculum is the concept that death is a sacred event and feelings of fear, pain and anxiety can be diminished through proper planning and early palliative care, allowing better quality of life at the end of life.

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Great teachers through the ages have taught the importance of facing death as a conscious and sacred event. Reverend Bodhi Be has carried this torch as an end of life leader and innovator globally, as well as for his local Hawaiian community.

He is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in the Sufi lineage. As Founder and Executive Director of Doorway Into Light, his life and teachings encourage us all to “do death better”.

Inspired by Ram Dass, a mentor, neighbor and friend; Bodhi Be has turned the business of dying into a sacred and sustainable event.

Doorway Into Light is a non-profit organization based in Maui that provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying and their families.

For more information about Reverend Bodhi Be please visit:

Website - https://www.doorwayintolight.org/

Or - https://www.ipuka.org/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Thedeathstore/

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https://www.dyingyourway.com/facing-death-ebook?r_done=1

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More and more we see the funeral industry turn to eco options. No one does this better than Kotuku Funerals in Cromwell, New Zealand. Leigh-Anne Fox is a funeral home owner and director of Maori descent who blends the best of traditional burials with the culturally rich “tangi”. The tangihanga is the enduring 3 day Maori ceremony for mourning someone who has died. 

Learn more about choices at the end of life that are environmentally friendly and meaningful no matter your background or traditions. Consider your preferences, budget and share your thoughts with your loved ones.  They will thank you for it while honoring your life!

For more information about Leigh-Anne Fox please visit:

Website - https://kotukufunerals.co.nz/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kotukufunerals.co.nz/

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https://www.dyingyourway.com/facing-death-ebook?r_done=1

https://www.dyingyourway.com/eol-training

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What is end of life and the opportunity to change our perspective?

Death is a kind of initiation that involves ceremony.

It is a right of passage and training for others to be able to face the deaths we all must suffer, large and small.

There is a new "you" being born at many life junctures. Ritual provides comfort and support to meet those moments and better understand the soul's journey.

Some areas we discuss: 

• End of care rituals
• Rituals and initiation
• Death as an initiation

For more information about Sarah Kerr please visit:

Website - https://sacreddeathcare.com/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Sacred.Deathcare/

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VSED - Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking at the end of life, is a legal but controversial topic in many states and countries. Judith Schwarz PhD, RN and Clinical Director with End of Life Choices New York, explains what VSED is and isn’t. Who are the most likely candidates, and who would choose this option? Judith is a researcher, lecturer and author on this topic, and supported many suffering patients and their families to know if this is a viable option at the end of life. This is not to be confused with Medically Assisted Dying and not death by suicide*. 

*Please note if this episode prompts thoughts of self-harm, dial 988 in the US or 13 11 14 in Australia for immediate crisis counseling, or your country’s equivalent.

Connect with Judith here:

Website - https://endoflifechoicesny.org/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/EndofLifeChoicesNewYork/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/end-of-life-choices-new-york/

Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2fU9ouCTf8

By Judith's Book here - Click Here

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Jason was led to write a blog around the top five regrets at the end of life, which prompted our conversation about the importance of legacy.  He speaks of the freedom of forgiveness or as the Hawaians would say Ho’oponopono. He reads a Prayer for the Dying from the Neale Donald Walsch book Home With God and shares with this audience the unique experience of channeling with the enlightened masters about many end of life topics. A generously abundant interview with the Abundance Activator!

Connect With Jason Snaddon Here:

Website - https://www.jasonsnaddon.com/

LinkedIn - https://au.linkedin.com/in/abundanceandwealthcoach

Amazon - https://www.amazon.com.au/Abundance-101-Activate-Manifest-wildest/dp/1925949729

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https://www.dyingyourway.com/facing-death-ebook?r_done=1

https://www.dyingyourway.com/eol-training

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Join the conversation with Julie Ryan, a world renowned medical intuitive and psychic healer. Two Southern gals have a deep and meaningful interview around Julie Ryan’s fascinating work with dying patients and what actually transpires at the time of death. This episode is not to be missed! Be sure and listen to the end for her free book offer for Dying Your Way podcast listeners.

Connect with Julie Ryan here:

Website: 

https://askjulieryan.com/

https://askjulieryan.com/ask-julie/

Links to Julie's Social Media: 

https://www.facebook.com/askjulieryan

https://twitter.com/askjulieryan

https://www.instagram.com/askjulieryan/?hl=en

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https://www.dyingyourway.com/facing-death-ebook?r_done=1

https://www.dyingyourway.com/eol-training

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In this second Dying Your Way interview with Stephen Jenkinson, he shares with podcast host, Claire O’Berry, his take on the last two years and how in the end, death is the common denominator that we all share.

“Death means you no harm. Though it means you. You belong to the ending of your days.”

This past palliative care provider, poet and philosopher of our time will have you think … and think again … rewind … replay … rewind and replay … and guaranteed think more deeply about our own natural and inevitable progression toward death.

Connect with Stephen Jenkinson here:

Website: https://orphanwisdom.com/
Links to Some of Stephen's Work: 

https://orphanwisdom.com/a-generations-worth-spirit-work-while-the-crisis-reigns/

https://orphanwisdom.com/nights-of-grief-and-mystery/

Videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3daU3ZrNpw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w1MfpoERhE

Join the Dying Your Way conversation on our FaceBook group, search for Dying your Way. Or to learn more or contact us go to www.dyingyourway.com.

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https://www.dyingyourway.com/facing-death-ebook?r_done=1

https://www.dyingyourway.com/eol-training

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Grief Specialist and counselor Barb Adler reflects on the power of mindfulness as tool to connect and witness feelings, to better support anyone living or dying. Starting as a counselor during the HIV / AIDS epedemic in San Francisco, Barb had to confront her own unresolved grief while learning to be present and in the moment to clients receiving what was then a death sentence. Barb has built on this work to support those living with dementia and those struggling with mental health issues in the aging population.

Connect with Barb Adler here:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bard-adler-lmft-0278864a/

Join the Dying Your Way conversation on our FaceBook group, search for Dying your Way. Or to learn more or contact us go to www.dyingyourway.com.

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https://www.dyingyourway.com/facing-death-ebook?r_done=1

https://www.dyingyourway.com/eol-training

https://dyingyourway.com/book-a-consultation/

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