What is a Death Doula?: Their role at the end of life.

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 their view of death is part of a continuous cycle of life and is not something that ends in oblivion and therefore should not be feared. Linda talks about how this cycle of life, death and rebirth is part of the web of life that connects all things in the present and the past. 

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim and edited by Werner Mathiuet. Special thanks to Shannon Callander and the whole Karuna team.

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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 light-hearted, fun, and positive way. As we all know, death is certain, but the manner and time of our death is uncertain. But this lovely card game will surprise and undoubtedly ease you gently and with lots of humour, into the important conversations that we all need to have about the inevitability of our death, the importance of life and to ensure we prepare well for both…..before it’s too late.

Learn more about Carked It! here: https://carkedit.com
Learn more about Simon's work with the Good Death Impact Network, The Ageing Revolution and PikMe.

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim and edited by Shannon Callander. Special thanks to Werner Mathiuet and the whole Karuna team.

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Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

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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, rebirth and the type of meditation encouraged by Padmasambhava, the author of this profound and ancient book.  Dr Pema explains how this information and these techniques are neither difficult to understand nor to apply and can be utilized by anyone, anytime.  

Read Pema Düddul's book Luminous Awareness - A Guidebook to Natural Awakening in Life and Death.

Jalu Buddhist Meditation Centre - https//:www.pristine-awareness.org

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim and edited by Werner Mathiuet. Special thanks to Shannon Callander and the whole Karuna team.

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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 (Bardo Thodol) which was taught by Padmasambhava many hundreds of years ago in Tibet. It guides us through the dying process into the interval between death and the next rebirth. Pema explains how these beautiful teachings and practices can be applied today in the 21st Century by anyone, anytime, as a way to prepare for death, to have a good rebirth and even perhaps to experience liberation from suffering.

 
This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim and edited by Werner Mathiuet. Special thanks to Shannon Callander and the whole Karuna team.

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Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

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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 first author of the Lancet Commission "The Value of Death: Bringing Death Back into Life." This fascinating commission explores how we understand death in the 21st Century and considers the implications of the various systems that determine how we die. Dr. Sallnow offers insights into how we can develop a "realistic utopia" in relation to dying, death and grief that is hopeful, intentional and actually values dying and death. 

Read the Lancet commission on The Value of Death: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/value-of-death

Learn more about Dr Sallnow and her work: https://www.endoflifecare.be/libby-sallnow

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim and edited by Werner Mathiuet. Special thanks to Shannon Callander and the whole Karuna team.

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Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

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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 of Writing, Editing and Publishing at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba.

Pema has a wide range of published work, including research papers, novels and scripts for stage and screen. One particular area of interest for him has been memoir writing, particularly in the context of understanding the dynamics of memory and how together memory and memoir can help us at the time of death and with our grief.

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim and edited by Werner Mathiuet. Special thanks to Shannon Callander and the whole Karuna team.

Brought to you by karuna.org.au
Follow What About Death!? on social media: @whataboutdeathpodcast

Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

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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 and Social Stress (GLASS) Lab, investigating the effects of grief on the brain and the body. 

Dr O’Connor explains what she has learnt over more than two decades researching grief and its effects. She also talks about how we can use that research to understand our loss and move through our grief in a way that keeps us connected to love, and offers hope and peace of mind.

Learn more about Dr O'Connor and her work: https://maryfrancesoconnor.org/

Follow Dr O'Connor on Instagram: @doctormfoconnor

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim and edited by Werner Mathiuet. Special thanks to Shannon Callander and the whole Karuna team.

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Follow What About Death!? on social media: @whataboutdeathpodcast

Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

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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 and better understand society's attitudes towards the topic. Her research leads her to share conversations with many interesting people including embalmers, a former death row executioner, gravediggers and even people with jobs she'd never heard of before, such as a bereavement midwife. 

Hayley tells Tsultrim about her experiences meeting with these incredible people who have made death their life's work, but who often go unrecognised in society until we need them.

In addition to her own books, Hayley's work has been featured on WIRED, BuzzFeed, The Guardian, GQ, Esquire, Empire, VICE, FIGHTLAND, New Statesman, McSweeney’s, The Comics Journal. She also hosts the Unpopped podcast for the BBC and Must Watch on BBC Radio 5 Live.

Visit Hayley's website: https://www.hayleycampbell.com/
Follow Hayley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hayleycampbell
Follow Hayley on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hayleycampbelly/

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim and edited by Werner Mathiuet. Special thanks to Shannon Callander and the whole Karuna team.

Brought to you by karuna.org.au
Follow What About Death!? on social media: @whataboutdeathpodcast

Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

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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 and strategies can help to reduce that fear. Rachel is the director of the Menzies Anxiety Centre in Sydney, which she established earlier this year to provide evidence-based psychological treatment for death anxiety and related conditions. Her most recent book is called “Free Yourself from Death Anxiety – A CBT Self Help Guide for a Fear of Death and Dying”. 

Learn more about Rachel's work:

https://www.menziesanxietycentre.com/

https://rachelmenzies.com/

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim and edited by Werner Mathiuet. Special thanks to Shannon Callander and the whole Karuna team.

Brought to you by karuna.org.au
Follow What About Death!? on social media: @whataboutdeathpodcast

Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

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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 explains how “Death” became one of the main characters of this beautiful book and how he created and developed this character and the different relationships that Death has throughout. Markus offers listeners a fascinating insight into how this book became and remains a timeless and much loved story to many people across the world. He also explains how he moved from this story to that of his other novel  Bridge of Clay many years later, where death and grief continue to play an important part of the storyline. 

This episode of What About Death!? is hosted by Tsultrim. Special thanks to Shannon Callander, Werner Mathiuet and the whole Karuna team.

Brought to you by karuna.org.au
Follow What About Death!? on social media: @whataboutdeathpodcast

Our music is Bling Heights by Ahjay Stelino.

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