When You Die
Episodes
WYD Podcast With Rosie Grant.
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rosie Grant is a writer, baker, and traveler who journeys across the world with an unusual guide: gravestones. In cemeteries from small towns to far-o...
Sian Sibley: Old Ways in Modern Times
17 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we hear the word "witch" we think of fairy tales . But witches (yes they are real!) are rooted in the "natural" instead of the supernatural. Sian...
Jennifer O’Brian: Advice for Sustainable Caregiving
06 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Using her skills as a CEO in health care management combined with her experience as a caregiver, Jennifer O'Brian shares advice from her latest bo...
Nurse Penny Smith: The Transformative Power of Hospice Care
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Social media star Nurse Penny Smith talks about her new book Influencing Death, her transformation from addiction to celebrated hospice nurse, the st...
Kathryn Mannix, MD: Stories to Help Us Understand Death
02 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Palliative care pioneer, and passionate death educator Dr Cathryn Mannix shares beautiful stories from her decades of practice at the bedside. Not to ...
Gabby Jimenez, RN: Grief, Ritual, and End-of-Life Care
07 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While grief is universal, it is also personal and unique to each to each of us. Gabby Jimenez is a hospice nurse, and end-of-life doula, and educator...
Lisa Pahl: Dealing with Death.. With a game of cards
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Death is in the cards, so why not deal yourself a hand and have a laugh? That's what the Death Deck is about. Created by Lisa Pahl and her busines...
Karen Wyatt, MD: 7 Lessons From The Dying
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hospice physician, Dr. Karen Wyatt has been widely recognized for her compassionate presence with patients and her deep understanding of the spiritu...
Carol Reid: Grieving Before Death
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Carol Reid and her husband were looking forward to spending their retirement together. But when Jim was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia , Car...
Michael Brooke: Life Stories Are a Gift for the Future
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Brooke is a skateboarding historian and publisher who worked as an Assistant Funeral Director during the Covid pandemic. These experiences ins...
Time to Pause: A Special 3 part podcast looking at innovative leadership in the end-of-life-space Part 3- Briana Simmons
07 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Briana Simmons is a lifecycle facilitator for black and LGBTQIA+ communities. She is also the founder of Unearthing Tradition, and works to reclaim di...
Nefertiti Moor: Time to Pause Participant 2 of 3 Parts Dearly Bereaved, End-of-Life Support
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When Nefertiti Moor first began her work in death care, she had originally planned to focus on being a Death Doula. But within her community she saw a...
Alica Forneret: Supporting Grief in the Workplace & Beyond
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Alica Forneret's work focuses on how we can support each other through death-related loss and the grief sparked by, and before, end-of-life experi...
Nicola Nuttall: ShitScaredMum
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nicola Nuttall's daughter Laura was just starting University when she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. We talk about how the family has b...
Day Schildkret: The Transformative Power of Ritual
12 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Day Schildkret is internationally renowned as an author, artist, and teacher behind the Morning Altars movement, inspiring tens of thousands of people...
Olivia Bareham: Falling into Grief
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Grief is both emotional and felt experience. If we have the courage to really feel grief, feel our humanness, then we can process it more fully - even...
Emily Reiner: A conversation with the other family doctor
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our animal companions mean the world to us. They are part of our family and our support system. Letting them go is never easy, but it is necessary. V...
Jude Higgins: Last Responder!
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Death Doulas are important members of the team that make up, “Last Responders.” Jude Higgins is an Educator, Spiritual Care Coordinator, and Clini...
Dianne Gray: Advocacy at End of Life
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When we talk about the role of end of life doulas we primarily think that they offer support to prepare for death, provide comfort, help with grief. B...
Adriana Marchione: Expressive Arts Therapist
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Art and movement therapy can be a powerful ally on the grief journey. Integrating the death of a loved one can be overwhelming, but somatic movement a...
Welcome Back Barbara Karnes!
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode host Johanna Lunn and Barbara discuss the future of dying. How hospice has changed. How to pick a hospice (not all hospices are the sa...
The Wisdom of Near Death Experiences
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Penny Sartori PhD is a skilled intensive care nurse, educator, and leading world expert on near death experiences. She has authored a number of bo...
Joél Simone Anthony - The Grave Woman
11 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joél Simone Anthony, better known as The Grave Woman, is a licensed funeral director and embalmer, a sacred grief practitioner, end-of-lif...
William Peters – Continuing Bonds with Loved Ones Who Have Passed
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In At Heaven’s Door (Simon & Schuster 2022), William shares his research on the many ways the living can and do accompany the dying on their jou...
Sue Brayne – Working With Our Fear of Dying
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible that our fear of death prevents us from living fully? For over 20 years Sue Brayne has been helping people to transform their relations...
Jill MacFarlane - The Sharing Place where kids and their families cope with grief and loss
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Since 1993, The Sharing Place in Salt Lake City has had a mission to “provide a safe and caring environment for grieving children, teens, and their ...
James Morgan - Connecting Through Loss
23 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After experiencing the devastating loss of their one-year-old baby boy, James and Catie Morgan found comfort in surrounding themselves with other coup...
It’s Your Funeral - With Kathy Benjamin
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For most of us, our own funeral is an afterthought or, even worse, something we avoid thinking about altogether. For Kathy Benjamin, the very tho...
Farewelling - with Karen Bussen & Elizabeth Meyer Karansky
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Loaded with resources, and easy to use tools for end of life planning, Farewelling is a one-stop online shop that lets users create meaningful memoria...
Interview with Hospice Nurse, Julie McFadden
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Julie McFadden has been working as a hospice nurse for the past five years, and prior to that she worked in Intensive Care for close to a decade. Juli...
Jill Schock - Death Doula
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Johanna Lunn speaks with Death Doula, Jill Schock, about what it means to be a death doula and death worker in the time of COVID-19.
Jill Chandler
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jill Chandler handled many roles in her life: performer, wife, mother. But when her husband Donald died, Jill became a young widow. She spoke with us ...
Map of Memory Lane
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Francesca has written a richly illustrated book for children that introduces the importance of memories of those we love who have died. Children are o...
Andre Roupp - Life and Death as a Funeral Director
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The role of a funeral director is all-encompassing and ever-changing. But when you are part of a small community, you not only provide the services re...
Michael Hebb
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Hebb and Johanna Lunn talk about Death over Dinner.
Barbara Karnes - Hospice Pioneer
20 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Johanna Lunn, Barbara Karnes shares insights on self care best practices for frontline workers, and straight talk on end of life ...
Sheree Fitch - Part 2
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sheree Fitch is known for many things: an author of witty and wonderful children's books, an award-winning poet, a bookstore owner and a teller of sto...
Sheree Fitch - Part 1
25 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sheree Fitch is known for many things: an author of witty and wonderful children's books, an award-winning poet, a bookstore owner and a teller of sto...
Dale Jackson
08 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dale Jackson—a licensed embalmer and funeral director with 46 years of experience and counting—shares his story (SPOILER: and his own near-death e...
Francesca Arnoldy
29 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
WYD Podcast in conversation with Death Doula Francesca Arnoldy, the author of Cultivating the Doula Heart: Essentials of Compassionate Care. She ...
Deborah Luscomb, End of Life Concierge
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Deborah is one of the facilitators of the Halifax Nova Scotia Death Café, and leads Death Matters workshops in the area. She acts as an end of life c...
'Recompose' and the Future of Green Burial with Katrina Spade
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Katrina Spade is popularizing the idea of 'Recomposition', a green burial method that converts human remains into soil. It's among the most promising ...
Death Salon 2018 with Mandy and Jeremy from TalkDeath
08 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mandy Benoualid and Jeremy Cohen from TalkDeath.com and qeepr.com recap the 2018 Boston Death Salon — America's premier #DeathPositive gathering and...
Endwell Symposium 2017 Recap with Death Doula Jill Schock
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As the 2018 Endwell Symposium: Design for the End of Life Experience approaches, we're revisiting last year's recap podcast from #Endwell 2017 with ou...
Peggy McGuire, Palliative Care
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Cambia Health Foundation President Peggy Maguire talks about the ins and outs of palliative care and what the rest of the healthcare system could lear...
Dr. Jessica Zitter, Changing the Death-Phobic Culture
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jessica Zitter, author of 'Extreme Measures' and star of the Netflix doc 'Extremis' on what she calls the 'End of Life Conveyor Belt' most America...
DIY Dying Funeral Director Shawn LaValleur-Adame, Unorthodox Burial Methods
13 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Funeral Director Shawn LaValleur-Adame of DIY Dying discusses unorthodox burial methods like sending ashes to the moon, a volcano summit and the botto...
Charley Rosicky, Complicated Grief
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
'Complicated Grief' with Charley Rosicky: Longtime hospice worker, grief counselor and meditation teacher, Charley Rosicky, discusses 'complicated gri...
Gay Dillingham, Dying to Know
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gay Dillingham, producer/director of ‘Dying to Know’ the documentary that chronicles Tim Leary and Ram Das’s friendship in the final days of Lea...
Death Salon Recap 2017 with Death Doula Jill Schock
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Death Doula LA Jill Schock and host Kelly MacLean recap the 2017 Seattle Death Salon and discuss themes from the world's leading #deathpositive confer...
Aquamation with Jocelyn Roth
27 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Jocelyn Roth, Co-owner of Resting Waters, Washington's first aquamation site, explains the growing trend of water cremation - legalized in California ...