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What About Death!?
by karuna.org.au
"What About Death" is a podcast exploring the many and varied experiences and perceptions of dying and death. Every two weeks, Tsultrim, an Australian Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, talks to people from around Australia and the world, listening to their insights and views and bringing this important subject out of the dark and into a place where we consider... everything you wanted to know about death but were afraid to ask!An initiative of karuna.org.auDisclaimer: The views expressed on these podcasts may not reflect the wider views of Karuna Hospice Service. The content of these podcasts are for general information only and you should not rely upon that information without seeking further advice from appropriate sources. If listening to these podcasts raises any concerns or issues for you please contact Lifeline on 131114 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636
Episodes
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Trent Dalton: Love and Loss Stories - Part 2
In the final episode of the third season of What About Death!?, Tsultrim continues her conversation with award-winning Australian author and journalist, Trent Dalton. Trent shares the different ways love and grief intersect in his books: from the love stories people told him on the streets of...
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Trent Dalton: Boy Swallows Universe—and Grief - Part 1
In today's episode, Tsultrim is joined by best-selling Australian author, Trent Dalton. Trent discusses his debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe, and how his personal experiences with grief helped to shape his characters and the world they inhabit. Trent also talks about his late dad Noel, who...
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Kyle Sherwood: Dead Skin, Living Memory
In today's episode, Tsultrim is joined by Kyle Sherwood, a third-generation mortician and co-founder of the business Save My Ink Forever. Alongside his dad Michael, Kyle offers a unique service that preserves tattoos as a piece of art after a person has passed away. Kyle talks about how the...
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Roshi Joan Halifax: Enactive Compassion at End of Life
In today's episode, Tsultrim speaks to Roshi Joan Halifax, a Zen Buddhist teacher from the Upaya Zen Center in New Mexico. Roshi Joan talks to Tsultrim about her extensive work in death and dying, and grief and loss. In particular, she highlights her work in educating clinicians and other people…
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Kate Folb and Erica Rosenthal: Flipping the Channel on Death
In today's episode, Tsultrim speaks to Kate Folb (Director, Hollywood, Health & Society) and Erica Rosenthal (Director of Research, Media Impact Project) from the Norman Lear Center. The Lear Center is an initiative of the University of Southern California, and explores the social, political,...
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Sam Fern: What the Dead teach us about Community - Part 2
In today's episode of What About Death!?, Tsultrim continues her conversation with author Sam Fern. They discuss the process of writing his second book, Where the Dead Lives, a vividly illustrated exploration of world cultures and the way people mourn, grieve, and remember their dead. Sam also...
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Sam Fern: Monsters, Puzzles, and Death Literacy - Part 1
In today's episode of What About Death!?, Tsultrim speaks to Sam Fern, an author based in the United Kingdom. Sam has published two books for children, Escape Castle Dracula and Where the Dead Live. His work explores gothic literature and world cultures, and what they can teach us about death,...
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Gabby DaRienzo: Life's End Game
In today's episode of What About Death!?, Tsultrim speaks with artist and video game developer Gabby DaRienzo. Gabby's work, including the games A Mortician's Tale and Seasonala Cemetery, explore the intersection between death, grief, and video games. Gabby shares what the process of creating a...
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Aaron Watkin: A Mortician’s Perspective on Death and Life
In today's episode of What About Death!?, Tsultrim speaks with Aaron Watkin, a Sunshine Coast-based mortician. Aaron explains how he first started working in the death industry, and what motivates him to continue in this space. He also talks about the details of his role, from what his average…
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Leah Cotterell and Narelle McCoy: The Art of Funeral Performance
In today's episode of What About Death!?, Tsultrim speaks with Leah Cotterell and Narelle McCoy. Together they form a unique musical duo, drawing on a combination of academic research, personal experience, and cultural traditions. Their performances, described as both heartwarming and…
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Benjamin Law: The intersection of death, culture, and community - Part 2
On today's episode of What About Death!?, Tsultrim continues her conversation with Australian author, screenwriter, and journalist Benjamin Law. They continue talking about Ben's most recent stageplay, an adaptation of Cory Taylor's memoir Dying. Ben also talks about the importance of culture in...
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Benjamin Law: Adapting Cory Taylor's Memoir 'Dying' for the stage - Part 1
In the first episode of What About Death!? Season 3, Tsultrim speaks with Australian author, screenwriter, and journalist Benjamin Law. They discuss how Ben adapted his good friend Cory Taylor’s critically acclaimed book, Dying: A Memoir, into a stage play. Ben takes us through the process of...
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What About Death!? returns for Season 3
We're delighted to welcome you back for Season 3 of Karuna's What About Death!? podcast. Hosted by Venerable Tsultrim, this season continues to gently challenge fear and stigma surrounding death, dying, grief and loss. Grounded in the understanding that life and death are not opposites but part…
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Celtic Paganism and how it sees life, death and rebirth with Pagan Elder Linda Ward
In this episode, Tsultrim speaks with Linda Ward, a Pagan Elder and member of Pagan Hearth Incorporated in Queensland, Australia. Linda explains what Celtic Paganism is and how its belief in the cycle of birth, growth, death and rebirth can bring comfort at the time of death. Linda tells how…
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Carked It! – Can a card game about death actually be fun?
In today’s episode, Tsultrim speaks with Simon Lowe, the creator of a fabulous card game called “Carked It!”. Simon developed this, at times, very funny card game as a way of connecting people and opening the door to friends, family and even strangers, to talking about life, death and beyond in a...
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Pema Düddul: The Tibetan Book of the Dead in the 21st Century - Part 2
Today's episode is a continuation of Tsultrim's conversation with Dr. Pema on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, how we can apply some of its techniques to our daily lives as a way of living our best life and how it can help us to prepare for when death comes. Pema tells us more about impermanence,...
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Pema Düddul: The Tibetan Book of the Dead in the 21st Century - Part 1
On today’s episode Tsultrim is pleased to welcome Dr. Pema Düddul back to the podcast to talk about his recently released book “Luminous Awareness – A Guidebook to Natural Awakening in Life and Death”. This book is a guide to understanding the profound work called The Tibetan Book of the Dead...
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Dr Libby Sallnow on The Value of Death: Bringing Death Back into Life
On today's episode of What About Death!?, Tsultrim speaks with Dr Libby Sallnow, a palliative care consultant and researcher from London in the UK. Dr Sallnow has been a leader in developing social and public health approaches to death, dying and loss for over two decades and she was recently the...
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Pema Düddul: Memory and Memoir and their value to understanding dying, death and grief
In today’s episode of What About Death!?, Tsultrim speaks with Dr Pema Düddul, a Director at Pristine Awareness: Foundation for Buddhist Practice and an internationally recognised Buddhist teacher in the Tibetan tradition. Pema is also recently retired from his position as the Associate Professor...
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Dr Mary-Frances O'Connor: The Grieving Brain
In today’s episode, Tsultrim speaks with Dr Mary-Frances O’Connor, author of the fascinating book “The Grieving Brain – The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss”. Dr O’Connor is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona where she directs The Grief, Loss…
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Hayley Campbell: The vital role of death industry professionals
In today’s episode, Tsultrim speaks with UK-based writer, journalist and broadcaster Hayley Campbell about her new book “All the Living and the Dead”. This compelling and heartfelt book explores the death industry and those who work in it, as Hayley strives to answer her own questions about death...
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Dr Rachel Menzies: Death Anxiety and its role in mental illness
In today’s episode of What about Death!?, Tsultrim speaks with Australian Clinical Psychologist Rachel Menzies. Rachel has extensively researched how the fear of death affects mental illness. She tells us about the causes and contributing factors to experiencing death anxiety and what treatments...
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Markus Zusak: Australian author of international best-selling novels “The Book Thief” and “Bridge of Clay”
In this episode of What About Death!?, Tsultrim speaks with internationally acclaimed and best selling author, Markus Zusak about his hugely successful novel The Book Thief which has been translated into more than 40 languages, and spent 500 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list. Markus...
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Coming soon: Australian author Markus Zusak
In the first episode of Season 2, Tsultrim speaks with Markus Zusak, the award-winning Australian author of the internationally best-selling novel "The Book Thief". Famously narrated by death, "The Book Thief" explores themes of death, grief, community and love against the backdrop of…
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What About Death!? returns for Season 2
What About Death!? returns for a new season of discussing the many and varied experiences and perceptions of dying and death. Join us fortnightly from Monday, March 20 as our host Tsultrim, an Australian nun in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, shares the answers to the questions you wanted to know...
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Bindi Irwin on life, death and grief
In this episode Bindi Irwin, world renowned conservationist, television personality, Wildlife Warrior, and daughter of Steve and Terri Irwin of the world famous, Australian Zoo shares her experience following the death of her father when she was just 8 years old. Bindi tells us how her life...
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Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell: Death, end of life care and the importance of family in the indigenous community in New Zealand
In today's episode, Tsultrim speaks with Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell a Research Fellow at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and a founding member of the Te Arai Palliative Care and End of Life Research Group. Through her personal and professional experience as a Maori woman, Tess explains her...
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Dr Kriss Kevorkian: Why do humans have difficulty living in harmony with nature? (part 2)
The death of the natural environment and its inhabitants are unprecedented and in the main caused by humans. Dr. Kevorkian shares how we as human beings can value our natural world rather than see it as another commodity to be exploited. She explains how we can develop a recognition and...
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Dr Kriss Kevorkian: What is environmental and ecological grief? (part 1)
In this episode of What About Death, Tsultrim speaks with Dr Kriss Kevorkian, a Climate Thanatologist from Washington State in the USA. In part one, of this two part series, Dr. Kevorkian explains environmental and ecological grief and why we humans often experience grief reactions to the death…
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Roly Sussex: Why is death such a negative concept?
In this episode, I speak with Emeritus Professor, Roly Sussex who has been the presenter of ABC Brisbane's long running program "A Word in Your Ear." He has studied and researched language for many decades and today he shares his significant insights into our use of language and how it relates to...
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Dr Joanne Cacciatore: Traumatic death and how the pain, grief and heartbreak that follows can be transformed (part 2)
In this episode of What About Death, Tsultrim speaks with Dr Joanne Cacciatore, a tenured Professor at Arizona State University in the USA and author of the best selling book, "Bearing the Unbearable - Love, Loss and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief." Dr Cacciatore is also the founder of the MISS...
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Dr Joanne Cacciatore: Traumatic death and how the pain, grief and heartbreak that follows can be transformed (part 1)
In this episode of What About Death, Tsultrim speaks with Dr Joanne Cacciatore, a tenured Professor at Arizona State University in the USA and author of the best selling book, "Bearing the Unbearable - Love, Loss and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief." Dr Cacciatore is also the founder of the MISS...
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What is a Death Doula?: Their role at the end of life.
In today's episode, I speak with Annie Whitlocke a Death Doula from Melbourne, Australia. Annie explains her role as a death doula and how the privilege of caring for those coming to the end of their life has reinforced the importance and value of talking openly about death, during life. This...
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Dr Michael Barbato: The art of palliative care
In this episode of What About Death I speak with Dr Michael Barbato who has been a medical doctor for over 55 years and a palliative care physician for over 30 years. Michael has written three books entitled, "Caring for the Living and Dying", "Reflections of a Setting Sun, and "Midwifing Death"....
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Dr Sarah Winch: Let's prepare for death - the value of death literacy
In this episode I speak with Dr Sarah Winch an Australian Healthcare Ethicist and author who talks to us about the importance of developing our death literacy. Dr Winch shares her thoughts about why talking about death during our life can help to reduce our fear and discomfort by preparing us for...
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Dr Hannah Gould: Natural burials, contemporary technology and connection
In this episode of What About Death, our guest is Dr Hannah Gould a cultural anthropologist from the University of Melbourne. Dr Gould tells us about the movement towards natural burials and why it is so important. She also explains how technology is being used in a variety of ways to encourage...
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Dr Daniel Wescott: Forensic anthropology, what it is and how it helps the living
In today's episode of "What about Death" I speak with Dr Daniel Wescott who is the Director of the Forensic Anthropology Centre Texas State (FACTS) in the USA. Dr Wescott explains the field of forensic anthropology and the importance of understanding what happens to the human body after death...
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Dr John Troyer: Death, taboo, politics and their impact on society
In today's episode of What about Death!?, Dr John Troyer from the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath in the United Kingdom shares his view of the taboo that seems to surround the topic of death. He also shares with us his insights on the necessary societal and political...
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Jackie Campbell: Why palliative care for our pets
In today's episode I talk with Dr. Jackie Campbell from Sunset Vets, one of Australia's first ever dedicated Palliative Care teams for pets. Dr. Campbell shares her experience and her insights into why good quality, accessible palliative care is so important when our much loved pets have a life...
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Patrick Stokes: Personal identity, online memorials and death
Australian philosopher and author, Dr Patrick Stokes from Deakin University in Melbourne, offers his thoughts about how personal identity impacts how we contemplate our own death and the challenges and fears that may naturally arise as a result. He also tells us about his research into the modern...
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Donate Life: Can there be value and purpose in death?
Alana Cresswell from Donate Life Qld and Phillipa Lazenby from the Qld Tissue Bank tell us about the importance and value of organ and tissue donation. They share their insights on how this practice of generosity and kindness can change the lives of the loved one's left behind after death,...
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Samuel Johnson: How death enriches life
Australian actor Samuel Johnson shares his experience of dying and death and the profound influence that it has had on his own life. He shares the importance of bringing the subject into the open, how it has enriched his experience, despite the grief and sadness he has felt. He offers his…
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Introducing "What About Death!?"
"What About Death!?" is a podcast exploring the many and varied experiences and perceptions of dying and death. Every two weeks, Tsultrim, an Australian Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, talks to people from around Australia and the world, listening to their insights and views and bringing...
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"What About Death" is a podcast exploring the many and varied experiences and perceptions of dying and death. Every two weeks, Tsultrim, an Australian Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, talks to people from around Australia and the world, listening to their insights and views and bringing this important subject out of the dark and into a place where we consider... everything you wanted to know about death but were afraid to ask!An initiative of karuna.org.auDisclaimer: The views expressed on these podcasts may not reflect the wider views of Karuna Hospice Service. The content of these podcasts are for general information only and you should not rely upon that information without seeking further advice from appropriate sources. If listening to these podcasts raises any concerns or issues for you please contact Lifeline on 131114 or Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636
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