March 13, 2023

Ep. 394 You’re Going to Die (YG2D): Creatively Exploring Death and Dying with Ned Buskirk

1 hour 8 minutes

Learn how YG2D brings diverse communities in to the conversation of death and dying using creativity.

My guest Ned Buskirk is the Founder, Podcast Host, Facilitator and Executive Director for You’re Going to Die (YG2D), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Ned discusses the YG2D movement and how the arts are essential to helping us make meaning out of our mortality. We also talk about the importance of self-care as we try to make changes in how we think and talk about death in our society. Learn more at the website:

www.yg2d.com

www.instagram.com/yergoing2die

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This episode includes:

The need that inspired the creation of the first YG2D open mic

How YG2D has responded to the needs of community

The paradox between the urgent need for the message to get out and the reality that we also need to let go and relax in the moment

How creative arts can be a gentle way to introduce the reality of death and dying

The arts are “medicine” for our mortality

Writing helps us access unconscious parts of ourselves that have been buried

We need places we can go where we are safe enough to be vulnerable

How listening to stories is as important as telling our own

Grief can be a “rite of passage” in our culture, especially if we can talk about it

It’s important to find the right community that can hold you in the way you need to be held

Why we need self-care and balance when we are working in the death and dying field

The prison work that Ned is engaging in through YG2D

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