Dying Your Way - An End of Life Conversation with Friday the 13th Director Sean Cunningham.

Sean Cunningham is best known as a producer and director of horror movies, like Friday the 13th, but it is his documentary, The Nurse with the Purple Hair, that is changing how we look at death and dying. In this documentary he curiously lifts the curtain on the reality of hospice care. It is a doc…

Dying Your Way Interview With Terrence Mepham - Dying Your Way as a Roadmap for the End of Life

In this episode, listeners meet Co-Founder, Terry Mepham, who is the behind the scenes force behind Dying Your Way; an innovative concept to teach death literacy globally to anyone, anywhere and anytime. Core to the curriculum is the concept that death is a sacred event and feelings of fear, pain …

Dying Your Way - Interview With Reverend Bodhi Be - End of Life - A Time to be Alive

Great teachers through the ages have taught the importance of facing death as a conscious and sacred event. Reverend Bodhi Be has carried this torch as an end of life leader and innovator globally, as well as for his local Hawaiian community. He is an ordained interfaith minister and teacher in th…

Dying Your Way - Interview With Leigh-Anne Fox - Alternatives to Traditional Funerals as Part of End of Life Planning - Maori Style

More and more we see the funeral industry turn to eco options. No one does this better than Kotuku Funerals in Cromwell, New Zealand. Leigh-Anne Fox is a funeral home owner and director of Maori descent who blends the best of traditional burials with the culturally rich “tangi”. The tangihanga is t…

Dying Your Way - Sarah Kerr - End Of Life Care - Sacred Rituals for the Dying

What is end of life and the opportunity to change our perspective? Death is a kind of initiation that involves ceremony. It is a right of passage and training for others to be able to face the deaths we all must suffer, large and small. There is a new "you" being born at many life junctures. Rit…

Dying Your Way - Interview with Judith Swartz - VSED - Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking at the End of Life_mixdown

VSED - Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking at the end of life, is a legal but controversial topic in many states and countries. Judith Schwarz PhD, RN and Clinical Director with End of Life Choices New York, explains what VSED is and isn’t. Who are the most likely candidates, and who would cho…

Dying Your Way - Interview With Jason Snaddon - The Power of Forgiveness and Legacy at the End of Life

Jason was led to write a blog around the top five regrets at the end of life, which prompted our conversation about the importance of legacy.  He speaks of the freedom of forgiveness or as the Hawaians would say Ho’oponopono. He reads a Prayer for the Dying from the Neale Donald Walsch book Home Wi…

Dying Your Way - Interview with Julie Ryan - The 12 Transition Phases at the End of Life

Join the conversation with Julie Ryan, a world renowned medical intuitive and psychic healer. Two Southern gals have a deep and meaningful interview around Julie Ryan’s fascinating work with dying patients and what actually transpires at the time of death. This episode is not to be missed! Be sure …

Dying Your Way Interview With Die Wise Author Stephen Jenkinson - Round Two

In this second Dying Your Way interview with Stephen Jenkinson, he shares with podcast host, Claire O’Berry, his take on the last two years and how in the end, death is the common denominator that we all share. “Death means you no harm. Though it means you. You belong to the ending of your days.” …

Dying Your Way Interview With Barb Adler - Mindfulness in Living and Dying

Grief Specialist and counselor Barb Adler reflects on the power of mindfulness as tool to connect and witness feelings, to better support anyone living or dying. Starting as a counselor during the HIV / AIDS epedemic in San Francisco, Barb had to confront her own unresolved grief while learning to …