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View the video directly on YouTube In Part II of our conversation, Barbara Karnes, RN and I move into talking about some harder questions that

View directly on YouTube Barbara Karnes – hospice pioneer in the US and end-of-life educator extraordinaire – joins me to discuss her background, share her

After the sudden death of his brother, Preston Zeller decided to dive into his grief and his creativity by painting every day for a year.

Join me and Maria Fraietta to hear more about how the Nokbox – or Next of Kin box – could save you a lot of

Jamie Sarche, Director of Pre-Planning at Feldman Mortuary, a family-owned funeral business in Denver, CO discusses the advantages of planning a funeral in advance. Get

Learn about green burial and how licensed funeral director Emily Miller has turned 80 acres of high, pristine prairie lands into a fully natural burial

cianna stewart is the creator of the Dying Kindness podcast, “a podcast for people who are going to die someday.” Her wry sense of humor

As his wife slowly succumbed to a drawn-out illness, businessman, spouse and father Gene Zimmerman found himself writing poetry as a way to make sense

Clutter! Help! What is so-called “Swedish Death Cleaning” and how can these principles help us take charge of the clutter in our homes? Join me

Johanna J Lunn When You Die, director/producer, and I discuss the film “In the Realm of Death and Dreaming” + her next three documentary films about

Author, speaker and grief specialist Gary Roe and I discuss the topic “Grief: It’s Everywhere!” From humanity living with the COVID pandemic to personal losses

Co-creator of The Death Deck, Lori LoCicerco describes how she and Lisa Pahl decided to bring conversations about death to the fore by making a