Let's Talk Death! ... a HealGrief® program

Let's Talk Death with Susan McCue, LCSW

In this episode, Susan shares her story of dying now that she has entered hospice for comfort care related to a progressive disease with no cure. She hopes to die peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones while sharing tall tales and laughter.Susan McCue is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked in the field of death, dying, and bereavement since 2005. Her career began first as a hospice social worker, then as a hospice bereavement counselor. After obtaining her LCSW, Susan opened a private therapy practice specializing in grief and loss, mainly focusing on bereavement needs following the immediate death of a loved one.During this time, Susan also provided grief and loss presentations at the community, state, national, and international levels on topics including the difference between the natural process of grief and more complicated grief responses.Susan’s personal background includes multiple deaths in her immediate family, which led to Susan’s interest and passion for the field of death, dying, and bereavement. She is one of nine children born in an Irish-American family. Her father died at age 64, her mother at age 69, and six of their nine children (Susan’s siblings) died in their 50s and 60s.Susan finds her personal and professional life coming full circle now that she has entered hospice for comfort care related to her diagnosis of Pulmonary Fibrosis, a progressive disease with no cure. Susan’s brother and sister also died of this disease. Susan volunteers as a Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation Ambassador to participate in PF research and to share her story with other PF patients, families, and loved ones affected by the disease. She hopes to die peacefully at home surrounded by her loved ones while sharing tall tales and laughter.Support the show

Let's Talk Death with Raymond Moody

In this episode, Raymond shares how his interest in the afterlife began. The afterlife was very counterintuitive to his way of thinking. Yet today, he can't think his way out of it.Raymond Moody is an MD with a Ph.D. in philosophy focused on unintelligibility.Raymond, founder of the Life After Life Institute in 1975, coined the term near-death experience. Today, he is a world-renowned scholar, lecturer, and researcher, widely recognized as the leading authority on near-death and shared-death experiences. Dr. Moody's work profoundly illuminates our understanding of death, dying, and grief.Raymond is the bestselling author of many books, including Life After Life, Glimpses of Eternity, The Light Beyond, and Coming Back, and is co-author of Proof of Life after Life: 7 Reasons to Believe in an Afterlife.A counselor in private practice, Raymond received his medical degree from the College of Georgia and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He has appeared on many programs, including Today and Turning Point. Support the show

Let's Talk Death with Paul Perry

In this episode, Paul is asked, when, during your research in the afterlife, did you become a believer? Paul recalls a particular woman whose experience led him to believe her consciousness truly did leave her body.Paul Perry is an author and documentary filmmaker intending to make media that matters. He has co-written several New York Times bestsellers, including The Light Beyond and Evidence of the Afterlife. He was knighted in Portugal for his film and book about Salvador Dalí, and the secret painting that changed his Life.His latest books, Glimpses of Eternity: Sharing a Loved One’s Passage from This Life to the Next, Paranormal: My Life In Pursuit of the Afterlife, and Proof of Life after Life: 7 Reasons to Believe in an Afterlife are the most recent books he has co-written with Dr. Raymond Moody, the founder of near-death studies.Paul is a graduate of Arizona State University and Antioch University.Support the show

Let's Talk Death with Francesca Arnoldy

In this episode, Francesca shares how love, compassion, and intuition drew her to lean into a loved one's end of life as they transition to death and how that was the seed to becoming a death doula.Francesca Lynn Arnoldy is a community doula and death literacy advocate. She is a researcher with the Vermont Conversation Lab and was the original course developer of the University of Vermont's End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Programs.Francesca authored Cultivating the Doula Heart, Map of Memory Lane, and The Death Doula's Guide to Living Fully and Dying Prepared.A trusted thought leader, Francesca has been featured in articles by The New York Times, Fast Company, Newsweek, The Verge, and AARP. She regularly presents on life-and-death topics, hoping to encourage people to support one another through times of intensity.You can find her contemplating birth, death, and life with the doula heart at FrancescaLynnArnoldy.com.Support the show

Let's Talk Death with Oshri Hakak

In this episode, Oshri shares how his grief connected him to a lifelong friend he never met and how they coauthored When Their Bodies Leave Them.Oshri Hakak is an author, artist, and musician based in Los Angeles, CA, who creates to uplift. He especially loves creating illustrated books about unconventional topics for children and grown-ups to help people live more adaptive and happy lives.Recently, Oshri coauthored an illustrated book about grief called When Their Bodies Leave Them.Support the show