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 Episode SummaryFarewelling goes to opening night of the 2019 Reimagine End of Life Festival in San Francisco, and talks with folks arriving at the Sydney Goldstein Theater on why they want to be there, and why we should have more open conversat...

While traditional burial was the only choice for many decades, we've entered a new phase, and people are looking for something different. Innovations abound, some of which are a reaction to increasingly scarce land or other environmental concerns. He...

When do you tell people that someone important to you has died? “Mommy, Mommy!” It was the voice of my nine-year-old son, who can be pretty darned persistent even when he just wants more macaroni and cheese before soccer practice. At the time, I...

My family are big-time music lovers, each with their own preferences. But when I planned funerals for my dear Italian grandmother and my own father, it wasn’t yet a trend to play nontraditional music at a funeral service. For my grandmother, it...

Death, dying and occasional cocktails. Farewelling founder Karen Bussen hosts celebrities, experts, and regular folks on a groundbreaking interview show to get us all talking more openly about death…and life. Season 1 features humorist and CBS S...

Don’t Make Your Family Ask, ‘Does This Spark Joy?’ If you’ve found yourself at any point blissfully origami-ing your underwear a la Japanese organizational guru Marie Kondo, you may be ready for the Scandinavian decluttering trend of “death clea...