On Grief: A Podcast about Death

Episode 117: Widows

March 19th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  17 mins 47 secs

Thank you to everyone who was patient during the hiatus.

In this episode, Shannon Culver, Alexie Landry, Janice Tsao, and Sarah Keast join me to discuss what life is like for widows, specifically young widows.

Episode 116: Complex Grief with Lindsay Joy Taylor

January 30th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  16 mins 52 secs

Lindsay Joy Taylor of the Joyful Jewelry Box (https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheJoyfulJewelryBox) joins me to discuss her incredible story of managing grief.

Episode 115: Equine Learning

January 23rd, 2020  |  Season 1  |  18 mins 40 secs

Gail Carruthers from Skye Blue Acres (http://www.skyeblueacres.com) joins me to discuss how horses can help people through their grief.

Episode 114: Laurie Kilmartin

January 9th, 2020  |  Season 1  |  16 mins 34 secs

Comedian Laurie Kilmartin lost her dad to cancer and rather than grieve privately, she mounted a comedy show and later a book about her experiences.

Dead People Suck ISBN: 9781635650006

Episode 113: Suicide

December 19th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  18 mins 37 secs

Content Warning: This entire episode is a frank discussion of suicide.

Seth Amitin, LCSW joins me to discuss what we know about suicide, what the myths are surrounding suicide, and how grieving people who die by suicide is different.

Episode 112: Death Doula

December 12th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  17 mins

Madeleine Domingue joins me to discuss what a Death Doula does, why you need one, and what myths still exist about the practice

Episode 111: Funerary Traditions

December 5th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  17 mins 18 secs

Three guests join me to discuss Funerary Traditions: Rabbi Andy Kahn, a Rabbi from New York, Khadijah, a woman who volunteers to prepare Muslim women's bodies in the Greater Toronto Area, and David Kunian, Music Curator at the New Orleans Jazz Museum to discuss Funerary Traditions you might not be familiar with.

Episode 110: EMDR with Dr. Roger Solomon

November 21st, 2019  |  Season 1  |  17 mins 5 secs

EMDR is touted as a cutting edge, highly effective treatment for many conditions, including PTSD and Grief. Dr Roger Solomon joins me to discuss what EMDR is.

Episode 108: Pet Grief Part One

November 7th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  17 mins 33 secs

Wendy Van De Poll, from the Center for Pet Loss Grief https://centerforpetlossgrief.com/ joins me to discuss how we have overlooked the impact of Pet Loss Grief far too long.

Episode 107: The Right to Die With Exit International's Philip Nitschke

October 31st, 2019  |  Season 1  |  16 mins 32 secs

While most of us respect that the terminally ill or very old might want to exercise their right to die, not many have come around on the idea that any adult with mental capacity should have the right to end their life on their own terms.
Philip Nitschke joins me to explain why Exit International provides information and works to move legislation past a medicalized model to bring this crucial right to more people.

Episode 106: Child Grief

October 24th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  17 mins 58 secs

What should we know about the way children grieve to make us better at helping them cope? Andrea Warnick, licensed psychotherapist with a specialty in Child Grief, joins me to discuss.

https://andreawarnick.com/

Episode 105: Caitlin Doughty

October 17th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  17 mins 14 secs

Author and Funeral Director and host of Ask A Mortician Caitlin Doughty joins me to talk about her book Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? (ISBN 039365270X) and other things she has learned about death and dying in her career.

Episode 104: Adam Cayton-Holland

October 10th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  47 mins 23 secs

Comedian Adam Cayton-Holland joins me to discuss his book and one man show Tragedy Plus Time: A Tragi-Comic Memoir (ISBN 1501170163) and how the sudden death of his sister changed his life

Episode 103: History of Grief

October 3rd, 2019  |  Season 1  |  16 mins 41 secs

Author Brandy Schillace (Death's Summer Coat - ISBN 1681773244 ) joins me to discuss the history of the Western way of grieving.

Episode 102: Mortician

September 26th, 2019  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 5 mins

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In this episode, I ask Mortician and Funeral Director Erin Bodishbaugh all the questions about their job everyone's afraid to ask

Episode 101: I Die

August 23rd, 2019  |  Season 1  |  51 mins 32 secs

death, ndes, near death

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To understand death, we have to ask people who have been there what it's like. I asked Dr. Eben Alexander, a Neurosurgeon and Near Death Experiencer to tell me what happened to him.

I also induce a Near Death Experience with the help of a substance called 5-MeO DMT.