What About Death!?

In today’s episode, Tsultrim speaks with UK-based writer, journalist and broadcaster Hayley Campbell about her new book “All the Living and the Dead”. This compelling and heartfelt book explores the death industry and those who work in it, as Hayley strives to answer her own questions about death and better understand society's attitudes towards the topic. Her research leads her to share conversations with many interesting people including embalmers, a former death row executioner, gravediggers and even people with jobs she'd never heard of before, such as a bereavement midwife. 

Hayley tells Tsultrim about her experiences meeting with these incredible people who have made death their life's work, but who often go unrecognised in society until we need them.

In addition to her own books, Hayley's work has been featured on WIRED, BuzzFeed, The Guardian, GQ, Esquire, Empire, VICE, FIGHTLAND, New Statesman, McSweeney’s, The Comics Journal. She also hosts the Unpopped podcast for the BBC and Must Watch on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Visit Hayley's website: https://www.hayleycampbell.com/
Follow Hayley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hayleycampbell
Follow Hayley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hayleycampbelly/

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim and edited by Werner Mathiuet. Special thanks to Shannon Callander and the whole Karuna team.

Brought to you by karuna.org.au
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Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

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In today’s episode of What about Death!?, Tsultrim speaks with Australian Clinical Psychologist Rachel Menzies. Rachel has extensively researched how the fear of death affects mental illness.  She tells us about the causes and contributing factors to experiencing death anxiety and what treatments and strategies can help to reduce that fear. Rachel is the director of the Menzies Anxiety Centre in Sydney, which she established earlier this year to provide evidence-based psychological treatment for death anxiety and related conditions. Her most recent book is called “Free Yourself from Death Anxiety – A CBT Self Help Guide for a Fear of Death and Dying”. 

Learn more about Rachel's work:

https://www.menziesanxietycentre.com/

https://rachelmenzies.com/

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim and edited by Werner Mathiuet. Special thanks to Shannon Callander and the whole Karuna team.

Brought to you by karuna.org.au
Follow What About Death!? on social media: @whataboutdeathpodcast

Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

If listening to these podcasts raises any concerns or issues for you please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636.

In this episode of What About Death!?, Tsultrim speaks with internationally acclaimed and best selling author, Markus Zusak about his hugely successful novel The Book Thief which has been translated into more than 40 languages, and spent 500 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. Markus explains how “Death” became one of the main characters of this beautiful book and how he created and developed this character and the different relationships that Death has throughout. Markus offers listeners a fascinating insight into how this book became and remains a timeless and much loved story to many people across the world. He also explains how he moved from this story to that of his other novel  Bridge of Clay many years later, where death and grief continue to play an important part of the storyline. 

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim. Special thanks to Shannon Callander, Werner Mathiuet and the whole Karuna team.

Brought to you by karuna.org.au
Follow What About Death!? on social media: @whataboutdeathpodcast

Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

If listening to these podcasts raises any concerns or issues for you please contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or Beyond Blue on 1300 224 636.

In the first episode of Season 2, Tsultrim speaks with Markus Zusak, the award-winning Australian author of the internationally best-selling novel "The Book Thief".

Famously narrated by death, "The Book Thief" explores themes of death, grief, community and love against the backdrop of Nazi-occupied Germany during World War II. Tsultrim discusses the way Markus constructed his characters, especially Death as the narrator, and the ways in which his book resonated with people all over the world despite its difficult subject matter.

Markus Zusak: Australian author of international best selling novels "The Book Thief" and "Bridge of Clay" will be available to stream on Monday, March 20.

What About Death!? is an initiative of karuna.org.au and hosted by Tsultrim.
Special thanks to Shannon Callander, Werner Mathiuet and the whole Karuna team.
Music: Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

Learn more about Karuna: http://karuna.org.au/
Follow What About Death!? on social media: @whataboutdeathpodcast

What About Death!? returns for a new season of discussing the many and varied experiences and perceptions of dying and death.

Join us fortnightly from Monday, March 20 as our host Tsultrim, an Australian nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, shares the answers to the questions you wanted to know about death... but were afraid to ask!

What About Death!? is brought to you by karuna.org.au and hosted by Tsultrim.
Special thanks to Shannon Callander, Werner Mathiuet and the whole Karuna team.
Music: Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

Learn more about Karuna: http://karuna.org.au/
Follow What About Death!? on social media: @whataboutdeathpodcast

In this episode Bindi Irwin, world renowned conservationist, television personality, Wildlife Warrior, and daughter of Steve and Terri Irwin of the world famous, Australian Zoo shares her experience following the death of her father when she was just 8 years old. Bindi tells us how her life experience growing up so closely to wildlife both at the zoo and in the wild has given her a remarkable understanding of the cycle of life, death and grief. She explains how this has given her purpose, hope and a joy for life. Bindi tells us how the events of her past and present shape how she is moving into the future with her own family. This episode of What About Death is hosted by Tsultrim. Our editors are Adair Sheppard, Werner Mathiuet, Shannon Callander, Ryan Drover, and Kiara Fauzi. Special thanks to Verena Coombs, Joshua Byrd, and the whole Karuna team. Brought to you by karuna.org.au https://karuna.org.au/donate-karuna/ Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino If listening to these podcasts raises any concerns or issues for you please contact Lifeline on 131114 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636.

The death of the natural environment and its inhabitants are unprecedented and in the main caused by humans. Dr. Kevorkian shares how we as human beings can value our natural world rather than see it as another commodity to be exploited. She explains how we can develop a recognition and understanding of the importance of our interdependence of nature and how this education will further harmony and solidarity with our world and its inhabitants. www.drkkavorkian.com This episode of What About Death is hosted by Tsultrim. Our editors are Adair Sheppard, Werner Mathiuet, Shannon Callander, Ryan Drover, and Kiara Fauzi. Special thanks to Verena Coombs, Joshua Byrd, and the whole Karuna team. Brought to you by karuna.org.au https://karuna.org.au/donate-karuna/ Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino If listening to these podcasts raises any concerns or issues for you please contact Lifeline on 131114 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636.