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September 13, 2019 Deborah Luscomb, End of Life Concierge
Deborah is one of the facilitators of the Halifax Nova Scotia Death Café, and leads Death Matters workshops in the area. She acts as an end of life concierge, assisting during the transition, and post-mortem experience. Deborah has a passion for bringing people together around difficult conversations, like death and dying.
33 min
March 08, 2019 'Recompose' and the Future of Green Burial with Katrina Spade
Katrina Spade is popularizing the idea of 'Recomposition', a green burial method that converts human remains into soil. It's among the most promising eco-friendly options that may be available in the near future. She discusses this unorthodox alternative to cremation and how it's rise could change our approach to saying goodbye.
27 min
March 08, 2019 Death Salon 2018 with Mandy and Jeremy from TalkDeath
Mandy Benoualid and Jeremy Cohen from TalkDeath.com and qeepr.com recap the 2018 Boston Death Salon — America's premier #DeathPositive gathering and death conference.
45 min
January 03, 2019 WYD Podcast—Santa, Mushrooms, and the Underworld with Tero Isokauppila
Santa Sold Shrooms author, Four Sigmatic Founder and mushroom evangelist Tero Isokauppila shares the origin story of Santa Claus involving shamans, a psychedelic mushroom and a surprising connection to the underworld, death and rebirth.
39 min
December 13, 2018 Endwell Symposium 2017 Recap with Death Doula Jill Schock
As the 2018 Endwell Symposium: Design for the End of Life Experience approaches, we're revisiting last year's recap podcast from #Endwell 2017 with our favorite death doula.
39 min
December 07, 2018 Peggy McGuire, Palliative Care
Cambia Health Foundation President Peggy Maguire talks about the ins and outs of palliative care and what the rest of the healthcare system could learn from it.
24 min
November 02, 2018 Dr. Jessica Zitter, Changing the Death-Phobic Culture
Dr. Jessica Zitter, author of 'Extreme Measures' and star of the Netflix doc 'Extremis' on what she calls the 'End of Life Conveyor Belt' most Americans wind up on and how introducing Death Ed in schools could change a death-phobic culture in one generation.
39 min
September 13, 2018 DIY Dying Funeral Director Shawn LaValleur-Adame, Unorthodox Burial Methods
Funeral Director Shawn LaValleur-Adame of DIY Dying discusses unorthodox burial methods like sending ashes to the moon, a volcano summit and the bottom of the ocean.
42 min
May 10, 2018 Charley Rosicky, Complicated Grief
'Complicated Grief' with Charley Rosicky: Longtime hospice worker, grief counselor and meditation teacher, Charley Rosicky, discusses 'complicated grief' and shares stories of working with the dying and those left behind.
36 min
March 13, 2018 Gay Dillingham, Dying to Know
Gay Dillingham, producer/director of ‘Dying to Know’ the documentary that chronicles Tim Leary and Ram Das’s friendship in the final days of Leary’s life shares her own tale of pouring her own loss and grief into the award-winning film.
34 min

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