The Death Diaries

On this episode I talk with Anna Swenson, communications manager at Recompose. Recompose provides ecological, regenerative death care and is the first company in the world to offer natural organic reduction, a process that gently converts human remains to soil.

https://www.recompose.life/

On this episode I talk with Carl Öhman, a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His research looks at the ethical and political challenges that arise from the growing volume of 'digital human remains' – data left by deceased users – on the internet. This includes questions of about what happens to our data when we die, what should we do with dead people's data? And who should decide?

Links:

• How to Setup a Legacy Contact on Facebook
• The Oxford Internet Institute, Digital Ethics Lab
• Edina Harbinja Research

On this episode, I talk with The Death Deck founders Lisa Pahl and Lori LoCicero. Their motivation and desire to help people become comfortable with conversations about mortality and end of life wishes led to their partnership and creation of the game.

Links:

• The Death Deck

• International Association for Animal Hospice and Palliative Care
• Veterinary Society for Hospice and Palliative Care

A year ago today I was nervous as hell to hit publish on the very first episode of The Death Diaries. If you haven't heard it, I encourage you to go back and look for Episode 1, 'Introducing the Death Diaries.'

In this bonus episode, I share three things I've learned from starting this podcast.

On this episode I talk with Gail Rubin, CT, The Doyenne of Death, author and coordinator of the Before I Die New Mexico Festival.

Links:

• A Good Goodbye (website)
• Before I Die Festival

On this episode I talk with Cal Cates, Executive Director at Healwell. We talk about their obsession with death and end of life care massage.

Our first live episode from Iona Senior Services features Sally Craig. She talks about the death of her husband, caring for bodies at home after death and dating.

Links:

• http://crossings.net/
• National Home Funeral Alliance

On this episode I talk with Darlene Garcia, who unexpectedly one day became a widow. She's a grief recovery specialist, self love coach and HR consultant who's on a mission to give a grief a voice.

On this episode I talk with a former atheist turned religious sister, Theresa Aletheia Noble, about remembering your own death and Momento mori.