Today on the show we talk with multiple award-winning human, Shivani Kaushik.  Shivani is a friend and fellow Social Work PhD cohort member and comes to the show to discuss DEATH & DYING!!! Super spooky and timely for this Halloween season 2021.  But all fear-inducing stereotypical culturally stigmatized thoughts about death aside, Shivani tells me about her work to bring dignity to the dying in correctional settings and her work exploring the benefits and effects of peer-support inmate-to-inmate programs designed to ease and assist in the natural dying process when in incarcerated settings.  We discuss some aspects of her Canadian culture in comparison to the United States including the private prison industry, rehabilitative models of corrections, and punitive models of corrections.  We talk about how important it will need to be in the future that we begin talking about death in a more constructive and beneficial way, rather than the current cultural programming narratives.

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