Dying Your Way

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 documentary of love at the end of life. Grab a tissue!

Claire and Sean during the interview will have you considering the conversations you need to have with your own loved ones.

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 and anxiety can be diminished through proper planning and early palliative care, allowing better quality of life at the end of life.

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 the Sufi lineage. As Founder and Executive Director of Doorway Into Light, his life and teachings encourage us all to “do death better”.

Inspired by Ram Dass, a mentor, neighbor and friend; Bodhi Be has turned the business of dying into a sacred and sustainable event.

Doorway Into Light is a non-profit organization based in Maui that provides conscious and compassionate care for the dying and their families.

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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 the enduring 3 day Maori ceremony for mourning someone who has died. 

Learn more about choices at the end of life that are environmentally friendly and meaningful no matter your background or traditions. Consider your preferences, budget and share your thoughts with your loved ones.  They will thank you for it while honoring your life!

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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. Ritual provides comfort and support to meet those moments and better understand the soul's journey.

Some areas we discuss: 

• End of care rituals
• Rituals and initiation
• Death as an initiation

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