When a Pet Dies

Recompose

On this episode I talk with Anna Swenson, communications manager at Recompose. Recompose provides ecological, regenerative death care and is the first company in the world to offer natural organic reduction, a process that gently converts human remains to soil. https://www.recompose.life/ [https://www.recompose.life/]

Are the dead taking over Facebook?

On this episode I talk with Carl Öhman, a doctoral candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His research looks at the ethical and political challenges that arise from the growing volume of ‘digital human remains’ – data left by deceased users – on the internet. This includes questions of about what happens to our data when we die, what should we do with dead people's data? And who should decide? Links: * How to Setup a Legacy Contact on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/help/1568013990080948] * The Oxford Internet Institute, Digital Ethics Lab [https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/digital-ethics-lab/] * Edina Harbinja Research [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1782472]

The Death Deck

On this episode, I talk with The Death Deck founders Lisa Pahl and Lori LoCicero. Their motivation and desire to help people become comfortable with conversations about mortality and end of life wishes led to their partnership and creation of the game. Links: * The Death Deck [https://thedeathdeck.com/]

When a Pet Dies

On this episode, I talk with Dr. Page Yaxley, a board-certified Small Animal Emergency and Critical Care Medicine veterinarian at The Ohio State University, College of Veterinary Medicine. We talk about quality and end of life care for animals.   Links: * International Association for Animal Hospice and Palliative Care [https://www.iaahpc.org/] * Veterinary Society for Hospice and Palliative Care [http://www.vethospicesociety.org/]

3 Things I’ve Learned From Starting a Podcast

A year ago today I was nervous as hell to hit publish on the very first episode of The Death Diaries. If you haven’t heard it, I encourage you to go back and look for Episode 1, 'Introducing the Death Diaries.‘ In this bonus episode, I share three things I've learned from starting this podcast.