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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-off countries, Rosie searches for recipes carved into headstones — instructions left behind as acts of love, memory, and hope. She then brings those recipes back to life, baking and cooking them exactly as they were written.What began as curiosity has become a moving exploration of grief, culture, and connection. Each dish tells a story — not just of how someone cooked, but how they wanted to be remembered.Rosie has gathered these remarkable recipes into her book To Die For, a collection that’s equal parts cookbook, and meditation on legacy.In this conversation,  we’re talking about food, memory, and what it means to be remembered — one recipe at a time.

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 Sibley is a traditional witch, animist and a lover of the green world. She embraces ecological death culture and draws on the ancient beliefs to create sustainability  in modern life.

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 book Care Boss, about how to balance providing a dignified death for our loved ones with a smooth transition from caregiver to griever.

Social media star Nurse Penny Smith talks about her new book Influencing Death, her transformation from addiction to celebrated hospice nurse, the state of hospice, and so much more.

Palliative care pioneer, and passionate death educator Dr Cathryn Mannix shares beautiful stories from her decades of practice at the bedside. Not to be missed!

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 who uses her experience to improve end-of-life care and support grief. She talks about the need to address unresolved grief, otherwise it can be come staked, one experience after another like a pancake; the role of ritual and ceremony to help process grief; the importance of education; and so much more. Gabby can be found at www.TheHospiceHeart.net

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 business partner Lori LoCicero,  The Death Deck offers a creative way to have those difficult conversations. As a Hospice and Emergency Medicine Social Worker, Lisa saw first hand how people avoid the topic of death, even those who work in end of life care. She joins Kelley Edwards for a chat about how important it really is to have these conversations before it's too late.

Hospice physician, Dr. Karen Wyatt has been widely recognized for her compassionate presence with patients and her deep understanding of the spiritual aspect of health, illness and dying. In this episode, Johanna Lunn talks with Hospice physician Dr Karen Wyatt about Seven Lessons for the Living from the Dying, a beautiful book about Dr Wyatt's entre into hospice work after her father died and the many life-giving lessons she received from her patients.

Carol Reid and her husband were looking forward to spending their retirement together. But when Jim was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia , Carol found that although she had worked as a palliative care nurse, it did not prepare her to deal with the gradual loss of her own loved one.

Michael Brooke is a skateboarding historian and publisher who worked as an Assistant Funeral Director during the Covid pandemic. These experiences inspired his recent book Endless Wave: Skateboarding, Death and Spirituality and the creation of Time for My Story which works with individuals to record stories and memories of their life though words and pictures. The result is a beautiful magazine to be shared with family and friends. Endless Wave is available for free at: http://www.timeformystory.com/Endless-Wave/

Briana Simmons is a lifecycle facilitator for black and LGBTQIA+ communities. She is also the founder of Unearthing Tradition, and works to reclaim dignified life cycles, and offering lifecycle support that creates unapologetic healing spaces for black folks.

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 need for so much more. It was because of this need that Nefertiti founded Dearly Bereaved, where she can help people in many aspects, from green burial support, grief support and home funeral guiding. In doing so, she has been able to revisit ancient customs and traditions of her ancestors and bring them to life in a modern world. You can find Nefertiti at https://www.dearlybereaved.net/ or https://www.timetopause.org/

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 experiences. She is the Executive Director of PAUSE which supports Communities of Color through grief and end of life by hosting a mentorship/incubator program for individuals, business owners, artists, and concept creators working in the end-of-life space.   For further information visit:  www.timetopause.org/

Nicola Nuttall's daughter Laura was just starting University when she was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. We talk about how the family has been living with this diagnosis, their drive to help others and the gratitude they feel for the many people have come forward to help Laura fulfill her bucket list - which includes driving a tank, a plane & a subway car! Since recording this podcast Laura has died. She is greatly missed by all and as Nicola said "She squeezed more joy in to her 23 years and 5 months than most people do in an entire lifetime."   website:  https://www.doingitforlaura.com/our-story Twitter:  ShitScaredMum

Day Schildkret is internationally renowned as an author, artist, and teacher behind the Morning Altars movement, inspiring tens of thousands of people to make life more beautiful and meaningful through ritual, nature and art. Ritual is a powerful way to make meaning in times of grief and times of joy. More than ceremony, rituals can mark our experiences and open us to the wonder of life itself. Author of Morning Altars and Hello Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration and Change. Day can be found at www.MorningAltars.com