Frank Ostaseki; is an internationally respected Buddhist teacher, visionary cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project, and founder of the Metta Institute. 'There is endless suffering in our world, and there is endless compassion to meet it.''
* Preparing for Dying
* Find a Place of Rest
* Compassionate Service
* Deep Listening
* Turn Toward Suffering
* Precarious Life
* Inviting the Wisdom of Death Into Life - Frank Ostaseski
* Frank Ostaseski - The Five Invitations - What Death Can Teach Us About Living?
Zenith Virago: haar website en meer:
* My Life As A Deathwalker with Zenith Virago;
''What is the greatest gift we can give to those we love? Zenith Virago, a self-described Deathwalker, gives potent advice on how to live and die well.''
* Zen & the Art of Dying documentary;
''From her origins as a young mother in the UK, to her present day identity as a lesbian, activist, and self-described deathwalker in the idyllic seaside town of Byron Bay, Australia, Zenith (Zen) Virago’s personal and professional experiences quietly challenge our core assumptions about life and dissolve our fears around death. The most sought-after marriage celebrant in an increasingly commercialized wedding destination town, Zenith is also co-founder of the Australian Natural Death Care Centre, an organization that provides end-of-life decision planning and DIY funeral alternatives to residents of Australia’s North Coast. Zenith's work models a grassroots international Natural Death Care Movement that is gaining momentum as Baby Boomers begin to retire and are demanding more personalized, empowered, and meaningful choices around end-of-life matters, just as they did with the natural childbirth movement. Her example, and the willingness of Byron Shire’s citizens to join her cause, invite each of us to reexamine and reclaim a more active role in how we live, love, and die.''
* The Rites of Passage Institute: Around The Fire: Dr Arne Rubinstein & Zenith Virago;
''Through this series we aim to share the healing power of stories in our lives to build communities, strengthen relationships and pass on wisdom and knowledge. In this session Dr Arne is joined by Zenith Virago, Deathwalker and pioneer of dying well. Zenith educates and empowers communities to experience loss in the best way they can.''
* Zenith Virago with Alice Night on 'Aliveness'
* The Intimacy of Death and Dying with Zenith Virago | Inspired Evolution | Amrit Sandhu
* National Home Funeral Alliace (NHFA): Creating Ceremonies for Home Vigils, Funerals, and Memorials;
''In this presentation from the 2017 NHFA conference, funeral celebrant, Kateyanne Unullisi, is joined by deathwalker, Zenith Virago, and author and funeral director, Amy Cunningham, to discuss creating ceremonies for home vigils, funerals, and memorials.''
* Stephen and Ondrea Levine about grief and more:
An Exploration of Healing into Life and Death:
* part 1
* part 2
* part 3
* part 4
Olivia Bareham's experience as an auxiliary nurse, hospice volunteer and her mother's end-of-life caregiver, inspired her to investigate a more meaningful and personal alternative to traditional funeral practices:
* Olivia Bareham On Saying Goodby; ''Death Midwife Olivia Bareham talks about living funerals, preparing the death bed and sitting vigil at the threshold of life and death.''
* Conscious dying with Olivia Bareham; about how to prepare for your own death, home funeralls, sea burials and more.
* Burial at Sea and Other Sacred End-of-Life Rituals with Olivia Bareham
* Embracing death as a gift; overcoming aversion en supporting the dying with Olivia Bareham.
* Sacred crossings with Olivia Bareham in the death dialogues project podcasts.
* Home Funeral & Death Midwifery by Sacred Crossings ''Olivia Bareham ensures Dorothy's final wishes for her after-death are carried out - these include a three-day vigil at home and dancing around her body at the funeral.''
Dorothy: ''I am calling this my transition party''
* Children and Home Funerals by Sacred Crossings ''Home Funerals provide a wonderful way for children to accept and integrate the death of a loved one. In the safe, familiar home environment they are able to process feelings and begin the healing process. This short clip illustrates 6-year old Taylor's ease at being with her Grandpa during his vigil.''
Stephen Jenkinson:
* Stephen Jenkinson - Griefwalker - Trailer
''Grief is not a feeling. Grief is not how you feel. Grief is what you do. Grief is a skill.
And the twin of grief... as a skill of life... is the skill of being able to praise - or love - life.
Which means where ever you find one authentically done, the other is very close at hand.
Grief and the praise of life, side by side.
The honounerd guest at the head table.
And they're toasting you.
Grief and the ability to love life, they're clinking.
Clinking there glasses, and toasting the living.
So here is to your health!
Until the time comes, when we come to get you, live well!"
* Griefwalker; ''This documentary introduces us to Stephen Jenkinson, once the leader of a palliative care counselling team at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. Through his daytime job, he has been at the deathbed of well over 1,000 people. What he sees over and over, he says, is "a wretched anxiety and an existential terror" even when there is no pain. Indicting the practice of palliative care itself, he has made it his life's mission to change the way we die - to turn the act of dying from denial and resistance into an essential part of life.''
* Stephen Jenkinson | On Death and Dying; a Full Podcast Episode van The Campire Stories podcast; ''This conversation was recorded the day after Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins appeared in the “Nights of Grief and Mystery” show in Portsmouth, UK, on June 5th 2019.''
* Stephen Jenkinson - The Meaning of Death
* The Skill of Brokenheartedness: Euthanasia, Palliative Care and Power - Stephen Jenkinson
* Dying Wise with Stephen Jenkinson & Raghu Markus
* Die Wise: Stephen Jenkinson ; ''Stephen Jenkinson's book Die Wise is for everyone who is not going to pull off eternity after all. It places death at the center of the page and asks us to understand that dying must be the fullest expression and incarnation of what we’ve learned by living - to behold it in all its painful beauty. He talks of dying well as a moral, political, and spiritual obligation that each person owes their ancestors and their heirs, and describes the North American death trade as death phobic and grief illiterate, able only to deliver on the demand to live, a deep-running culturally-derived adversary rather than a companion with death.''
* Nights of Grief and Mystery with Stephen Jenkinson | EOLU Podcast; ''My guest Stephen Jenkinson is the author of the award-winning book Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul and the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School. He discusses the Nights of Grief and Mystery project, which he created with singer/songwriter Gregory Hoskins, and how they have been touring the world with this profound musical and storytelling show. Stephen shares his thoughts on the crises of our contemporary society and how to proceed in the midst of our deep sorrow. Learn more about Stephen's work at his website''
* Die Wise: Stephen Jenkinson ; ''Stephen Jenkinson's book Die Wise is for everyone who is not going to pull off eternity after all. It places death at the center of the page and asks us to understand that dying must be the fullest expression and incarnation of what we’ve learned by living - to behold it in all its painful beauty. He talks of dying well as a moral, political, and spiritual obligation that each person owes their ancestors and their heirs, and describes the North American death trade as death phobic and grief illiterate, able only to deliver on the demand to live, a deep-running culturally-derived adversary rather than a companion with death.''
More about Stephen's work at his website''
Bernardo Kastrup:
* Bernardo Kastrup on death: a conversation with Simona Zemaityte
* Moet je bang zijn voor de dood? De bekentenis van Bernardo Kastrup
* What happens to consciousness after death?
* When We Die and The Meaning of Life - Analytic Idealism Course - Bernardo Kastrup
* Consciousness and Near Death Experiences with Dr. Bernado Kastrup
Meer van Bernardo Kastrup.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross:
* Home - EKR Foundation; ''the EKR Foundation is a non-profit organization inspired by the life of psychiatrist, humanitarian, and hospice pioneer Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. It’s in the spirit of embracing all of life — which includes death — that we further her mission and vision through collaborations, education, and advocacy.
* To Live Until You Die - Dr Elisabeth Kubler-Ross; ''Filmed in 1983, Dr. Kubler-Ross discusses end of life issues including forgiveness and the concept of unconditional love.''
Korte filmpjes:
* Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross - On Spirituality
* Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - On Unconditional Love
* Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - Language of the Dying & Fear of Death
* Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - On Children and Death
* Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - Understanding death & suicide
* Oprah Interview with Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, "People Are Talking" 1974
En iets uitgebreider:
* EARLIEST video of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross interviews a dying patients. 1960's; 'The Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation is an non-profit organization inspired by the life of psychiatrist, humanitarian and hospice pioneer, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
Though Elisabeth is often described as the “death and dying lady” or the “creator of the Five Stages of Grief®” she often referred to herself as the “life and living lady”.
It is in the spirit of embracing all of life, which includes death, that we further the mission and vision of Elisabeth through the work of the Foundation that bears her name.''
* Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross discusses working with dying children and their parents, 1973; ''Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross discusses working with dying children and their parents, 1973. Filmed at Elisabeth's home in Flossmoor, Illinois shortly before she wrote her book, "On Children & Death." Kübler-Ross also reads poetry illustrating the Five Stages of Grief/Death.''
* "To Live Until We say Goodbye" - Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross lecture; ''lectures on the the 4 quadrants, children and death, and more.''
* Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross speech November 17, 1978 - EKR talks about dying children and life lessons; ''After graduating from the University of Zurich in 1957, Kübler-Ross moved to New York in 1958 to work and continue her studies. She began her psychiatric residency in the Manhattan State Hospital in the early 1960s, and began her career working to create treatment for those who were schizophrenic along with those faced with the title "hopeless patient", a term used at the time to reference terminal patients. These treatment programs would work to restore the patient's sense of dignity and self-respect. Elisabeth also intended to reduce the medications that kept these patients overly sedated, and found ways to help them relate to the outside world. During this time, Ross was horrified by the neglect and abuse of mental patients as well as the imminently dying. She found that the patients were often treated with little care or completely ignored by the hospital staff. This realization made her strive to make a difference in the lives of these individuals. She developed a program that focused on the individual care and attention for each patient. This program worked incredibly well, and resulted in significant improvement in the mental health of 94% of her patients.
In 1962, she accepted a position at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. There, Kübler-Ross worked as a junior faculty member and gave her first interview of a young terminally ill woman in front of a roomful of medical students. Her intentions were not to be an example of pathology, but she wanted to depict a human being who desired to be understood as she was coping with her illness and how it has impacted her life. She states to her students, "Now you are reacting like human beings instead of scientists. Maybe now you'll not only know how a dying patient feels but you will also be able to treat them with compassion – the same compassion that you would want for yourself"
Kübler-Ross completed her training in psychiatry in 1963, and then moved to Chicago in 1965. She sometimes questioned the practices of traditional psychiatry that she observed. She also undertook 39 months of classical psychoanalysis training in Chicago. She became an instructor at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine where she began to conduct a regular weekly educational seminar that consisted of live interviews with terminally ill patients. She had her students participate in these despite a large amount of resistance from the medical staff.
A Life magazine ran an article on Kübler-Ross in November 1969, bringing public awareness to her work outside of the medical community. The response was enormous and influenced Kübler-Ross's decision to focus on her career on working with the terminally ill and their families. The intense scrutiny her work received also had an impact on her career path. Kübler-Ross stopped teaching at the university to work privately on what she called the "greatest mystery in science"—death.
During the 1970s Elisabeth became the champion of the world wide hospice movement. She traveled extensively to over twenty countries on six continents initiating various hospices and palliative care programs. In 1970, Kübler-Ross spoke at the prestigious Ingersoll Lecture at Harvard University on the subject of on death and dying. On August 7, 1972 she spoke to the Senate Special Committee on Aging to promote the "Death With Dignity" movement. In 1977, she was named "Woman of the Year" by Ladies Home Journal.''
* Dr. Elisabeth Kübler_Ross: Lectures On Children & Death;
''The Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation is 501(c)(3) non-profit organization inspired by the life of psychiatrist, humanitarian and hospice pioneer, Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
Though Elisabeth is often described as the “death and dying lady” or the “creator of the Five Stages of Grief®” she often referred to herself as the “life and living lady”.
It is in the spirit of embracing all of life, which includes death, that we further the mission and vision of Elisabeth through the work of the Foundation that bears her name.
The Foundation participates in initiatives and collaborates with individuals and/or organizations that:
Enhance compassionate care for the seriously ill and/or the dying
Further the acceptance of death as a part of life (versus those that see death as a separate event apart from life)
Enhance end-of-life care for special populations (such as those involved in hospice or palliative care for children, within the prison environment, or those living in remote populations or in developing countries, etc.)
Improve access to properly prescribed pain management medications as part of the end of life process
Enhance communication surrounding all aspects of end of life care and compassionate care of the dying (and those that love them)
Foster awareness of the power of unconditional love and forgiveness as an important component of one’s life journey
Enhance compassion and understanding of those who are grieving regardless of cause or origin
Further the wishes of the end of life patient while respecting his or her right to humane treatment and compassionate care.''
* Elisabeth Kübler-Ross talks about the 4 Quadrants, Drawing Interpretation, and other Topics
* Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Speech on death & dying
* Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: "Caring For A Dying Patient"
* Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Interview - "AIDS, Life, & Love" Virginia 1980's
* Elisabeth Kübler-Ross interview by Dr. Thomas McCormick at University of Washington 1984
* Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Talks with Medical Students about Life, Death, and Dying Patients
* Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Humana Hospital Alaska Clinical Chaplaincy Presents EKR - 1st Hour
* Dr. Elisabeth Kübler Ross on Spirituality & Resources For Terminally Ill, 1983. Full Interview.
Hans Stolp is pastor, auteur en veelgevraagd spreker. Hij studeerde theologie en maakte studie van de psychologie van Jung en van het esoterische christendom. In zijn werk maakt hij de oorspronkelijke, spirituele of esoterische traditie (weer) voor een breed publiek toegankelijk.
* Wat gebeurt er als je doodgaat? Hans Stolp vertelt
"Ik zoek steeds naar een groter kijken. Bijvoorbeeld als mensen doodgaan, wat gebeurt er dan? Dus dat je niet ophoudt bij de grenzen die door dit beperkte aardse leven worden aangegeven", vertelt Hans Stolp.
In deze video vertelt Hans Stolp over wat er na de dood gebeurt, waarom de manier waarop mensen sterven zo belangrijk is - en wat je nu al kunt doen om je voor te bereiden om meer te zien.
* Stervensbegeleiding.
* Wat gebeurt er als je dood gaat?
* De reis van de gestorvenen.
Artikels van Jeff Foster:
* Death “I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” – Woody Allen
* Fear Of Death Is Fear Of Life ''Perhaps it’s not death we are afraid of, but too much life.''
* On Grief, Loss, Death and Awakening from Dreams
''Grief is the loss of your dream of a future that wasn’t going to happen anyway.” - Adyashanti
* Grief’s Hidden Secrets ''The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can’t get off your knees for a long time, you’re driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss…” – Dean Koontz
Artikels van Christopher Wallis, aka Hareesh:
* What is Dead?
* The Opportunity of Death
En Angelo (simply always awake), A. H. Almaas, Alan Watts, Bernardo Kasturp, Eckhart Tolle, J. Krishnamurti, Mooji, Osho, Ram Dass, Rupert Spira en Thich Nath Hanh aan het woord.