Death is Inevitable

12 episodes

Curated by:
User profile picaliceko


  • 1

    Do you know what you want when you die? Do you know how you want to be remembered? In a candid, heartfelt talk about a subject most of us would rather not discuss, Michelle Knox asks each of us to ref...Show More

  • 2

    13| Katy Butler

    WeCroak

    54:54 | Mar 27th, 2019

    Season 2, Episode 4: Katy Butler – The Art of Dying Well Our society doesn’t talk enough about death enough and as a result, few are prepared for a thing we should all know to expect for ourselves an...Show More

  • 3

    Every Breath is Precious with Lesley Lupo-Part 1

    Life, Death and the Space Between

    30:43 | Jun 27th, 2019

    Lesley Joan Lupo is an Intuitive Practitioner at the famed Canyon Ranch (23 years) and is internationally known for her accuracy. A gifted healer, NLP specialist, and near-death experiencer, she has a...Show More

  • 4

    Mental Health Matters

    The Business of Life

    40:41 | Aug 3rd, 2019

    1 recommendation

    Jann and Arlene discuss the prevalence of mental health issues and their own experiences with anxiety & depression

    aliceko recommended:

    Refreshing and honest perspective from two famous Canadian women about apps making us lazier, death (it’s going to happen!), caring for elderly sick parents, and mental health. Thank you Arlene for sh...Show More

  • 5

    We're All Gonna Die!

    Hidden Brain

    30:43 | Sep 16th, 2019

    2 recommendations

    Death may be inescapable, but we do our best to avoid thinking about it. Psychologist Sheldon Solomon says we're not very successful though. This week on Hidden Brain, we confront how death anxiety co...Show More

    aliceko recommended:

    Does being aware of death make you more compassionate, or less? Really interesting conversation about death from psychologist Sheldon Solomon - he's been studying how reminders of death subconsciously...Show More

  • 6

    Chicken Salad Chick: Stacy Brown (2018)

    How I Built This with Guy Raz

    57:41 | Dec 30th, 2019

    1 recommendation

    For many of us, chicken salad is just another sandwich filling, but Stacy Brown turned it into a $75 million business. In 2007, she was a divorced mother of three looking for a way to make ends meet. ...Show More

    aliceko recommended:

    I CAN'T EVEN. The BEST HIBT this episodes are the ones from founders and companies I've never heard of before. This is truly the most emotionally moving HIBT episode I've ever heard. Anybody who is a ...Show More

  • 7

    A mesmerizing story about the wisdom and delight you can find — even in the midst of tragic loss — by seeing life and death through the eyes of a child. Storyteller Lucy Kalanithi is the widow of Paul...Show More

    aliceko recommended:

    Learn what living life with true freedom means. This episodes gave me goosebumps. Beautiful story about how a young child views death when it’s not framed as something negative. I just loved how this ...Show More

  • 8

    The Ventilator

    Hidden Brain

    52:14 | Nov 19th, 2019

    9 recommendations

    Many of us believe we know how we'd choose to die. We have a sense of how we'd respond to a diagnosis of an incurable illness. This week, we have the story of one family's decades-long conversation ab...Show More

    aliceko recommended:

    We never really absorb the fact that we are all dying...it's a difficult conversation. But - do you know how you would like to die? Are you sure? Yes, but are you SURE? Fantastic narrated story about ...Show More

  • 9

    The Coffin Club

    The Documentary Podcast

    27:41 | Jan 14th, 2020

    2 recommendations

    In 2010, Katie Williams – a former palliative care nurse – started the first Coffin Club in her garage. The idea was that elderly New Zealanders would come together to sand, assemble and decorate thei...Show More

    aliceko recommended:

    THIS IS REAL TALK. Beautiful and chilling story about older women in New Zealand who have developed a community of building their own coffins. I mean, we all know this is coming - so why not celebrate...Show More

  • 10

    #79 - Ric Elias: Earning the gift of life

    The Peter Attia Drive

    1:41:53 | Nov 11th, 2019

    3 recommendations

    In this episode, Ric Elias, founder of Red Ventures, opens up about the fateful day he knew for certain that he was going to die as a passenger on US Airways Flight 1549. Ric dives deep into how that ...Show More

    aliceko recommended:

    My god, one of my favorite episodes ever. Dr. Peter Attia shows his range as he veers from his typical 'medical and health' type of interview to shine a light on a topic that everybody needs to consid...Show More

  • 11

    Isabel Allende: The Wisdom of Aging

    WSJ Secrets of Wealthy Women

    23:43 | Feb 12th, 2020

    1 recommendation

    Best-selling Chilean-American author Isabel Allende speaks with the WSJ's Veronica Dagher about her new book, "A Long Petal of the Sea," a novel that tackles immigration, how she coped with enormous t...Show More

    aliceko recommended:

    Chilean-American Isabel Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." This is a beautiful, fresh, lesson-packed interview about all sorts of topics: immigration, copi...Show More

  • 12

    Sheryl Sandberg

    Desert Island Discs

    35:23 | Jul 30th, 2017

    1 recommendation

    Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, is Kirsty Young's castaway. She worked for Google at the beginning of the tech boom before joining Facebook in 2008. Raised in Miami Beach, Florid...Show More

    aliceko recommended:

    My gawd the power of audio. This is now officially one of my favorite episodes, ever. My gosh, how have I just discovered this show?! Has Sheryl Sandberg always been this vulnerable? Every single hand...Show More

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