My special guest today is Chi Chi Menedez:  Artist, death walker, ritualist, human being extraordinaire. Chi Chi hosts the free events held at the Paddock in Mullumbimby called Death Conversations. Next meeting Saturday 1st November.

The theme this season is Ritual and the Art of Farewell. It’s a workshop exploring ritual, ceremony, and storytelling.

Before Chi Chi joins us, you'll hear the first episode in her podcast The Dying Well, a conscious lifestyle show exploring Death, Spirituality, Rites of Passage, and the Practical Matters of Death and Dying.

Each episode explores a different aspect of death-related matters through candid conversations with experts, deathcare workers and everyday people who share their knowledge and transformative experiences.

In this episode, she speak swith Stephen Jenkinson and they'll be deep diving into the practical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual aspects of Death and Dying.

Stephen Jenkinson is a Canadian palliative care worker, speaker and author of the book DIE WISE. With a master’s in social work and a master's in theology from the Harvard Divinity School, he holds a wealth of knowledge. He is also the founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, and he teaches and speaks internationally.

This isn’t a sad show, there’s nothing depressing about talking about death and dying, it’s more an opportunity to be informed, educated and aware of the possibilities and opportunities in the local and global communities who make talking about death and dying as natural as birth and living!