In the wake of Andrea Gibson's death on July 14th, 2025, Ned Buskirk speaks with their partner Megan Falley, about grieving their death, still finding moments to walk with lightness, the final moments of Andrea's life, and how Andrea, wherever they are, is supporting Megan even still...

‎Watch Come See Me in the Good Light on Apple TV: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/come-see-me-in-the-good-light/umc.cmc.27uh51l7oh3ghql2gxb6xvb1s

megan falley’s website: https://www.meganfalley.com newsletter, continued for Andrea Gibson - “Things That Don’t Suck”: https://andreagibson.substack.com/

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In honor of Andrea Gibson, for their life and death on July 14th, 2025, we're resharing host Ned Buskirk's conversation them from January of 2022, including a new intro with host Ned Buskirk, producer Nick Jaina, and associate producer Jordan Edelheit, scored with more music from Nick Jaina, holding their laughter and tears on the chemo-brain railroad, talking about the record skipping parts of our lives’, the poetry of cancer, chronic disease, and panic attacks, and what it means to consider what’s available when faced with the hardest parts of being mortal.

andrea gibson’s website: https://andreagibson.org/ book - “You Better Be Lightening”: https://buttonpoetry.com/product/you-better-be-lightning/ newsletter, now continued by their wife, Megan Falley - “Things That Don’t Suck”: https://andreagibson.substack.com/

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD, a 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. Her book The Grieving Brain was included on Oprah’s list of Best Books to Comfort a Grieving Friend. O’Connor holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in psychoneuroimmunology at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Her newest book, The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing, a follow-up to The Grieving Brain, this time focuses on the impact of grief—and life’s other major stressors—on the human body.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with a song writer, theater maker and multi instrumentalist Shaun Bengson, one half of The Bengsons. Alongside his wife and collaborator Abigail Bengson, he has written a whole big gob of shows and performed them all over the place as well as composing music for dance, film and TV. Shaun and Abigail are raising two kids in their home bases of NYC and VT.

the begsions' website: https://www.bengsons.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/thebengsons

Sonya Renee Taylor & The Bengsons - LIVE at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley episode: https://yg2d.podbean.com/e/sonya-renee-taylor-and-the-bengsons-live/ In the Truth w/Abigail Bengson episode: https://yg2d.podbean.com/e/abigail-bengson-rerelease/

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with writer, embodiment facilitator, political organizer and therapist, Prentis Hemphill. They are the Founder and Director of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative, and host of the podcast “Becoming the People.” For the last ten years, Prentis has practiced and taught somatics in social movement organizations and offered embodied practice during moments of social unrest and organizational upheaval. Their debut book “What it Takes to Heal” published June 2024 through Penguin Random House.

Prentis Hemphill's website: https://prentishemphill.com/ book: https://prentishemphill.com/book ig: https://www.instagram.com/prentishemphill

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Clover Stroud, a Sunday Times bestselling writer, journalist and host of her own podcast, Tiny Acts of Bravery. Her first book, The Wild Other, was shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize. Her critically acclaimed second book, My Wild & Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story and third book The Red of My Blood were instant Sunday Times bestsellers and rated ‘best books of the year.' Her fourth memoir, The Giant on The Skyline, was published in May 2024. Originally from Oxfordshire, she is currently living in Washington DC with her husband and the youngest three of her five children.

Clover Stroud's website: https://www.cloverstroud.com/ substack: https://cloverstroud.substack.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/clover.stroud books: https://www.cloverstroud.com/books podcast: https://www.cloverstroud.com/podcast

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with culture activist and author Stephen Jenkinson. Jenkinson teaches internationally, is the author of seven books, and was the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010. Apprenticed to a master storyteller as a young man, he has worked extensively with dying people and their families. He is former programme director in a major Canadian hospital and former assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school. He has Masters' degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). In 2023 Stephen received a Distinguished Alumni Honours Award from Harvard University for "helping people navigate grief, exploring the liminal space between life and death, and connecting humanity through ceremony and storytelling."

To inquire about Stephen Jenkinson’s work, speaking engagements, live streams, counsel calls, interviews and The Scriptorium, please reach out HERE: https://orphanwisdom.com/contact/ The Scriptorium: Echos of an Orphan Wisdom - two in-person sessions April 23rd through 27th and April 30th through May 4th: https://orphanwisdom.com/scriptorium/ Sanity & Soul: Die Wise, Ten Years On - a livestream encounter March 15th and 16th: https://orphanwisdom.com/event/die-wise-sanity-and-soul-ten-years-on/ Only the Living Die - a live in-person event in Joshua Tree w/Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Ann Johnson on March 7th and 8th: https://orphanwisdom.com/event/a-year-of-reckoning/

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with friends and writers Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik as they talk about the promise they made, and kept, with their friend Ann Alejandro, to pull together, from thousands of her pages of writing left in their care, the new book I know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas, an extraordinary collection of writing put together by longtime literary friends in tribute to a third, who died in 2019 at the age of 64.

I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas - edited by Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik: https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781648432408/i-know-about-a-thousand-things/

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with beloved friend, singer/songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Scott Elliott Ferreter as they talk about his new album Trying Time, an album he didn't expect to be "about" death, but which actually has 9 out of 11 songs about either impermanence, death, his dead dad, his dead, or crying... They also talk about how Scott forgot Ned's birthday and how Scott thinks about Ned's death all the time.

scott's website: https://www.scottelliottferreter.com/| ig: https://www.instagram.com/scottelliottferreter/ TRYING TIME Fundraiser: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/trying-time-scott-elliott-ferreter-s-solo-album#/

You're Going to Die's ALIVE INSIDE Prison Program: https://www.alive-inside.com/

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Aerin Dunford, Lead Weaver of The Emergence Network (ten), a planetary network of care and inquiry gesturing towards new assemblages of response-ability during moments when the ways that we think about and address the troubling crises of our times are increasingly a part of those crises. This episode is released in anticipation of, and as invitation to, ten's Becoming Monster Festival, happening October 30th though November 3rd, 2024, a virtual, hybrid and in-person components hosted with a strange ecology of friends and partners (non-human and human alike) from around the planet. This event is a space held for grieving the losses that come with living into the end-times AND playing with ideas of fabulation, imagination and questioning: what else might the human be in our crumbling, entangled, pulsating, animist world(s).

REGISTER TODAY FOR ten's BECOMING MONSTER FESTIVAL: bit.ly/becoming-monster-registration

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aerin's blog: https://rafasname.net/

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This conversation originally aired August 31st, 2023. Join us ONLINE Monday, October 28th from 4-5:45pm Pacific, for a virtual screening of “The Last Ecstatic Days,” followed by ​Q&A with Scott Kirschenbaum, Director of ​"The Last Ecstatic Days​," and Aditi Sethi, Executive Director, Center for Conscious Living and Dying and one of the film’s subjects​. Facilitated by Ned Buskirk, Executive Director ​at You're Going to Die & Andrew Ingall, Senior Programmer, ​Reimagine... RSVP ​H​ERE: https://letsreimagine.org/76768/the-last-ecstatic-days-a-virtual-screening-and-qa aditi’s website: https://www.aditisethimd.com/ Center for Conscious Living & Dying: https://www.ccld.community/ Sign up for the CCLD updates & news: https://www.ccld.community/subscribe Support the CCLD: https://www.ccld.community/donation Or Venmo @ConsciousLivingDying

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Humanist Chaplain D.S. Moss, as they talk about the journey through life & loss that led to his mortality-influenced work in the world, including his experience of providing months of spiritual care to death row inmate, Phillip Hancock, holding space for him at the time of his execution by lethal injection. D.S. Moss' New York Times' "An Atheist Chaplain and a Death Row Inmate’s Final Hours": https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/21/us/an-atheist-chaplain-and-a-death-row-inmates-final-hours.html End Well talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WRbe6-ljmk The Adventures of Memento Mori Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/3KqE5E57MR8HeRedVqk95b?si=4c6927dc56ad481c ig: https://www.instagram.com/ds_moss/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the guests and do not necessarily represent the views of YG2D. TRIGGER WARNING: details of a death penalty execution

In the wake of Joanna Macy's death and with You're Going to Die's upcoming San Francisco event - A Wild Love for the World: An Evening Honoring Joanna Macy - host Ned Buskirk speaks with Lydia Violet Harutoonian, a scholar in Joanna Macy's work and a collaborator of Macy's for over 16 years.

An Iranian-Armenian-American facilitator, public speaker, and musician, Lydia is devoted to inner and outer ecological renewal and cultural healing, facilitating group work across many communities, weaving together systems of thinking, deep ecology, and emotional resilience in the face of global crisis.

She is the founder of the School for The Great Turning, a learning community where activism and spiritual practice meet. With training in community organizing and trauma-informed facilitation, she offers grounded emotional support to individuals and communities navigating burnout, grief, and the psychological weight of living in socio-ecological crises.

GET TICKETS NOW for You're Going to Die Presents... A Wild Love for the World: An Evening Honoring Joanna Macy at Swedish American Hall on November 16th in San Francisco: https://www.yg2d.com/all-events/yg2d-joanna-macy-11/16/25

Lydia Violet Harutoonian’s website: https://lydiafiddle.com/ School for The Great Turning: https://schoolforthegreatturning.com/ 8-Week Study of The Essential Joanna Macy: https://programs.schoolforthegreatturning.com/the-essential-joanna-macy-course

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with playwright and writer-across-disciplines Heidi Kraay, as they talk about her book 12 Lifetimes: A Century Cycle, and the grief, loss, & life that led to its being in the world. heidi's website: https://www.heidikraay.com/ book - 12 Lifetimes: A Century Cycle: https://modernmythographerpress.com/home-1 Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Join host Ned Buskirk in a creatively conscious mortality conversation with Chicagoan musician, author, and actor Tim Kinsella, whose previous bands include Joan of Arc, Cap’n Jazz, Owls, and now makes albums w/his wife Jenny Pulse for the Kill Rock Stars label.  tim kinsella's ig: https://www.instagram.com/gootiming/ tim kinsella & jenny pulse's website: https://bio.site/kinsella_pulse Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina "WTF is Death?" by Good F#@k THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with indie musician and singer-songwriter Caitlin Jemma. Her newest album A Wider View is inspired by themes such as death, generational heartbreak, forgiveness, transformation, compassion, and true love, exploring the larger perspective we gain when someone we love passes and how embracing your mortality can inspire a life full of purpose. caitlin jemma’s website: https://www.caitlinjemma.com/ Recorded at 3rd Street Studio - Rita House in Los Angeles: www.ritahouse.com/studio Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

You're Going to Die Presents: Alive Concert & Conversation w/Sonya Renee Taylor & The Bengsons at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, recorded for You're Going to Die: The Podcast on Saturday, August 17th, 2024...

Join us for an enlivening episode of holding the light & dark in community, with a live recorded conversation and Q&A with New York Times best-selling author, world-renowned activist/thought leader, and founder of the international movement The Body Is Not An Apology Sonya Renee Taylor & the composing/performing/grief-working, dumb joke-writing, award-winning duo The Bengsons, featuring music from The Bengsons, hosted by You're Going to Die's Ned Buskirk. sonya renee taylor's website: https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/sonyareneetaylor/ the bengsons’ website: https://www.bengsons.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/thebengsons/ Recorded by Nick Jaina Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Sound Engineered by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Additional Songs by The Bengsons Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with bestselling author, speaker, educator, and a trailblazer in the field of medical storytelling, Laurel Braitman. Laurel inspires healing and mental wellness through storytelling in her books and her work as the Director of Writing and Storytelling at the Stanford School of Medicine’s Medical Humanities and the Arts program. As a thought leader in mental health, Laurel writes and teaches about healing, grief, and emotional wellbeing for all of us—humans and other animals—as reflected in her new memoir What Looks Like Bravery, about resilience born from loss. laurel braitman’s website: https://www.laurelbraitman.com/ substack: https://laurelbraitman.substack.com TED Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7wk53Pt_0E End Well Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YcUIK51Fio Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D. SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate.

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Abigail Bengson, one half of the composing / performing / grief-working & dumb joke-writing, award-winning duo The Bengsons, talking about dissolving ravenously into the awe-filled urgent enoughness of loving & grieving LIFE.

This conversation originally aired June 8th, 2023.

the bengsons’ website: https://www.bengsons.com/ patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thebengsons ig: https://www.instagram.com/thebengsons/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina THIS PODCAST IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH SUPPORT FROM LISTENERS LIKE YOU. Receive episodes a week early by becoming a podcast patron now at https://www.patreon.com/YG2D.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with author, musician, artist, grief coach and thanatologist Carla Harvey, who has spent over 15 years navigating the death industry and is passionate about bringing awareness to the death positive movement, writing about aging, grief, death and dying in a way that will appeal to a new generation of people with non-traditional lives.  

carla's website: https://www.goodgriefla.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/carlaharvey/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with friends Amanda Nagai and Chelsea Coleman, as they talk about suicide, the impact of a personal loss like this, and their creative expression navigating this kind of death in community. Amanda is a storyteller, ritualist, artist, and designer focused on the transformative power of grief and the need for embodied collective ways to walk paths of mourning and healing together. Chelsea is a singer songwriter, the Creative Director of You’re Going to Die and head of its publishing program.

amanda's book: https://www.yg2d.com/publishing website: https://www.croneintraining.life/

chelsea's album: https://chelseacoleman.bandcamp.com/album/the-beginning-of-days Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Jesse Moss, Director of Marketing at Experience Camps, in charge of developing strategies and content to create a more grief-sensitive culture and advocate for grieving children. Experience Camps is an award-winning national nonprofit that transforms the lives of grieving children through summer camp programs and innovative, year-round initiatives. Through compassion, connection, and play, they allow grieving children to embody a life full of hope and possibility.

Experience Camps' website: https://experiencecamps.org/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/experiencecamps/ DONATE: https://give.experiencecamps.org/give/407095/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=D23ZWZZZZZ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Damon McMahon, an American indie rock musician and the primary member of the musical project Amen Dunes.

amen dunes' website: https://bedroomdrum.com/ Produced by Nick Jaina Associate Produced by Jordan Edelheit Soundscaping by Nick Jaina ”YG2D Podcast Theme Song” by Nick Jaina Episode Artwork by Nick Jaina "Round the World" performed by Amen Dunes, written by Bill Monroe & Damon McMahon, produced by Damon McMahon SUPPORT THE PODCAST & OUR 501(c)3 NONPROFIT BY CONTRIBUTING TODAY: https://www.yg2d.com/donate

In our newest episode, host Ned Buskirk speaks with Stephen G. Post, one of the world’s leading scholars on altruism, love, compassion, and the science of giving. He is a best-selling author, professor of preventive medicine, and founding President of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, and the founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. His work bridges science, spirituality, and ethics with a mission to understand how unselfish love heals, uplifts, and transforms both individuals and cultures.

Stephen G. Post’s website: https://www.stephengpost.com/ The Institute for Research on Pure Unlimited Love: https://www.unlimitedloveinstitute.org/ newest book - Pure Unlimited Love: Science and the Seven Paths to Inner Peace: https://www.churchpublishing.org/pureunlimitedlove

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking and Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done [a collection of his columns for the Guardian newspaper], as they talk about his newest book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, and making the most of our radically finite lives in a world of impossible demands, relentless distraction and political insanity [and 'productivity techniques' that mainly just make everyone feel busier].

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with GaTa, American rapper, actor, & hypeman, best known for his role as a fictionalized version of himself, Davionate "Dave" Ganter / GaTa, in the FXX TV series Dave.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Ira Byock, leading physician, author, and public advocate for improving care for people living with serious medical conditions. He is an emeritus professor of medicine and community & family medicine at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. His books include Dying Well, The Four Things That Matter Most, and The Best Care Possible.

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You're Going to Die Presents: Alive Conversation w/Báyò Akómoláfé at The Lost Church in San Francisco, recorded for You're Going to Die: The Podcast on Friday, March 15th, 2024...

Join host Ned Buskirk's LIVE conversation with Báyò Akómoláfé, father to Alethea and Kyah, grateful life-partner to Ije, son & brother, widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author. báyò’s website: https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/ facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bayoakomolafeampersand twitter: https://twitter.com/bayoakomolafe

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Martín Prechtel, artist, writer, musician, storyteller, teacher, and healer, as Prechtel offers his introduction as generous story-telling of ancestral lineage & answers the question: "Why say ‘yes’ to being on a podcast called 'You're Going to Die'?" martín prechtel's website: https://floweringmountain.com/ Please, Come Sit By My Fire - Martín Prechtel’s Audial Lecture Series - Talks from the Flowering Mountain: https://floweringmountain.com/pleasecomesitbymyfire/

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Jeremiah Fraites, co-founder of The Lumineers, American-Italian musician, composer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, talking about the loss of his older brother when Jeremiah was just 14 years old. jeremiah fraites's website: https://lnk.bio/jeremiahfraites ig: https://www.instagram.com/jeremiahfraites/ the lumineers: https://www.thelumineers.com/

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Sonya Renee Taylor, New York Times best-selling author of seven books, transformational thought leader, world-renowned activist, award-winning artist, and founder of the international movement The Body Is Not An Apology. sonya renee taylor's website: https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/sonyareneetaylor/ venmo @sonyareneetaylor

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Hyunhye "Angela" Seo, artist, multi-instrumentalist & vocalist, best known for her role in American experimental band Xiu Xiu, as they they talk about grief & music, grief & fear, grief & community. hyunhye seo's website: https://angelaseo.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/hyunnies/

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A bonus episode this week as accompaniment to Hyunhye "Angela" Seo's episode, continuing the conversation with her friends, Brenda Covarrubius, an occupational therapist who has worked with cancer patients, & Julie Lu, a doctor, talking about grief in community.

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with one of today’s foremost experts on grief, Claire Bidwell Smith, a licensed therapist, international speaker, & author, while they talk about her newest book, Conscious Grieving: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss, out March 12th 2024! claire bidwell smith's website: https://clairebidwellsmith.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/clairebidwellsmith/ new book: https://clairebidwellsmith.com/books/#consciousG

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In the first episode of this season of You're Going to Die: The Podcast, Francis Weller reminds us to invoke the medicine of our ancestral lineage; consider this episode a deepening into that work. In our newest episode, host Ned Buskirk speaks with Perdita Finn, a descendant of gardeners and dirt-lovers and women who knew how to speak to the dead in the dark. She is the author of Take Back the Magic: Conversations with the Unseen World and the forthcoming Mothers of Magic: Recovering the Love at the Heart of the World. She teaches popular workshops on collaborating with the unseen world.

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician, ethnobotanist, & culinary historian Justin Robinson, while they talk about the genocides of plant lives, cultivating relationship to plant species and plant individuals beginning with communication, and the work of ancestral relations. justin robinson’s ig: https://www.instagram.com/countrygentlemancooks/

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Rachel Elizabeth Cargle, activist, entrepreneur, & philanthropic innovator, while they talk about the death of her Mother, Sister, & Grandmother, all just in the last year, & the powerfully potent process of grieving with curiosity.

rachel cargle’s website: https://rachelcargle.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/rachel.cargle patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thegreatunlearn retreat at the Art of Living Center in Boone, NC - April 5-7th, 2024: https://artoflivingretreatcenter.org/event/faculty/rachel-cargle/a-renaissance-of-our-own/ book - A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir and Manifesto: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/635409/a-renaissance-of-our-own-by-rachel-e-cargle/ Elizabeth's Bookshop & Writing Center - you can support this small Black, -owned bookshop here: https://bookshop.org/shop/Elizabeths

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Krista St-Germain, Master Certified Life Coach, Post-Traumatic Growth and grief expert, widow, and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast, while they talk about her husband's death in 2016, how her life was flipped upside down, and how therapy helped her uncurl from the fetal position and move on to discover Life Coaching, Post Traumatic Growth, and the tools she needed to create a meaningful life after loss.

krista st-germain’s website: https://www.coachingwithkrista.com/

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, bereaved mom, founder of the MISS Foundation, author of "Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, & the Heartbreaking Path of Grief", Arizona State University Professor & director of its Graduate Certificate in Trauma & Bereavement Program, while they talk about the death of her daughter in 1994, how it led to her work in the world, & the story of founding the Selah Carefarm, the first carefarm for the traumatically bereaved in the United States & a haven for animals rescued from abuse, neglect, & torture.

dr. jo’s website: https://www.centerforlossandtrauma.com/ selah carefarm: https://www.missfoundation.org/selah-carefarm/ ”open letter to grievers”: https://www.centerforlossandtrauma.com/an-open-letter-to-grievers book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Bearing-the-Unbearable/Joanne-Cacciatore/9781614292968

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician and songwriter Dan Mangan, while they talk about how death and endings foster gratitude and give meaning to life, how sorrowful music connects community, and how trauma/grief/loss might be the one thing that unites us more than anything else.

dan mangan’s website: https://danmanganmusic.com/ newsletter: https://danmangan.substack.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/danmanganmusic/ tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@danmanganmusic twitter: https://twitter.com/danmanganmusic spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5ByjU6oarxRC2Y85JpKx1n?si=OUGAzh3yTt6tAF3QyNrj9Q phone number: 310.347.4597 (USA & Canada)

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University & the widow of Dr. Paul Kalanithi, author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling memoir When Breath Becomes Air, while they talk about her ongoing relationship to Paul, his impact/presence in her life still, & parenting their daughter in the wake of his death.

dr. lucy kalanithi’s website: https://lucykalanithi.com/ twitter: https://twitter.com/rocketgirlmd podcast GRAVITY: https://lucykalanithi.com/podcast

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Join Ned Buskirk in conversation with traveling songwriter & storyteller John Craigie, while they talk about the death of his father & how grief, mortality, loss, & heartbreak find a way into his music.

john craigie’s website: https://johncraigiemusic.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/johncraigie/

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Join You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk & producer Nick Jaina as they ring in the [Happy?] New Year with some fresh commitments & a new precious perk for our Patreon community.

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Available right now, only on Patreon, join Ned Buskirk in conversation with traveling songwriter & storyteller John Craigie, while they talk about the death of his father & how grief, mortality, loss, & heartbreak finds a way into his music. BECOME A PATRON HERE: https://www.patreon.com/YG2D

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with immersive installation artist, puppet-fabricator, & children’s book author Madison Girifalco, while they talk about grief, community connection, & support in her life & work with Holding Space, an art installation designed to acknowledge grief in community using immersive art & puppetry.

madison girifalco’s websites: www.holdingspacela.org www.puppetsbymadison.com ig: https://www.instagram.com/mindovermadison/ Holding Space ig: https://www.instagram.com/holdingspacela/

“Lunch Breaks w/Holding Space” on IG LIVE @holdingspaceLA, Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 12:30 PST: https://www.instagram.com/holdingspacela/

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Erika Wright, while they talk about the story, the plant medicine, the spiritual path, that led to their self-appointed work as a codependency counselor, our society's relationship to grief & vulnerability, & how we've been programmed to avoid hard feelings & the truth behind them.

erika wright’s website: https://erikawright.org/ podcast: https://erikawright.org/podcast/ healing codependency support & counseling groups: https://erikawright.org/healing-codependency-support-counseling-group/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/erikawrighthcd/ chocolate company: https://supahstah.com/ transformational women's retreats: https://madeofstars.co/

Co-Dependents Anonymous: https://coda.org/

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Join You're Going to Die: The Podcast host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Merrill Garbus of tUnE‑yArDs. Consider this a raw & honest invitation to step into the complexity of aliveness, even when it's hopeless, & burst into your own unique song. MUSIC AS MEDICINE: it doesn’t distract, but activate, so that we can feel all the things, hold them wholly, even when they're in conflict, & maybe breathe a little more freely on the other side of the catharsis of a siren scream.

tune-yards’ NEW EP, Tell The Future With Your Body: https://tuneyards.ffm.to/ttfwyb music & merch: https://kf-merch.com/collections/tuneyards website: https://tune-yards.com/ ig: https://www.instagram.com/tuneyards/ fb: https://www.facebook.com/tuneyards/ x: https://x.com/tuneyards

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Adam Jackson, Sacred Sons cofounder, Chief Visionary Officer, & the host of Sacred Sons Podcast, while they talk about how his lineage of loss & suicide led to his work with Sacred Sons, processing grief & anger with men, community building & purpose fueled by our mortality. TRIGGER WARNING: suicide

adam jackson’s ig: https://www.instagram.com/adam___jackson/ sacred sons: https://www.sacredsons.com/ sacred sons ig: https://www.instagram.com/sacredsons/

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with musician, visual/performance artist, & poet Andy the Doorbum, while they talk about his father's death process that inspired his new album, "OF TEARS, NO AMOUNT CAN QUENCH MOUTHS MAIMED BY DROUGHT," & how the album morphed into a grieving for the world & its current troubles.

andy the doorbum’s bandcamp: https://andythedoorbum.bandcamp.com ig: https://www.instagram.com/andythedoorbum/ fb: https://www.facebook.com/andythedoorbum/ X: https://twitter.com/AndyTheDoorbum SUPPORT andy via Venmo, paypal, cashapp: @andythedoorbum

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Frank Ostaseski - internationally respected Buddhist teacher, visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, & founder of the Metta Institute - while they talk about remaining vulnerably present in service of patients, how we should let our tears run instead of hiding them, & moving beyond the idea of a good death.

This conversation originally aired July 8th, 2021.

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Join host Ned Buskirk in conversation with author & editor Michelle Tea, while they talk about the story of her writing onto stage, her history running -feminist spoken-word & performance art collective Sister Spit, & the “mental illness” of writing & why it matters for our lives, our trauma, our healing.

Thanks to Beth Pickens for the “Death & God” chapter in her book Make Your Art No Matter What which offered a fitting launching off point for this conversation.

michelle tea’s website: https://www.michelle-tea.com/ books: https://www.michelle-tea.com/books IG: https://www.instagram.com/michelleteaz/ twitter: https://twitter.com/TeaMichelle substack: https://michelletea.substack.com/ venmo @Michelle-Tea-1

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