Interview – ABC Canberra Breakfast Show
July 13, 2022
This segment is from the ABC Canberra breakfast show where Bec chatted to the host about funerals and natural burial.
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This segment is from the ABC Canberra breakfast show where Bec chatted to the host about funerals and natural burial.
An enlightening conversation with Bodhi Be surrounding death
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The Andy Social Podcast is weekly podcast hosted by Australian musician, Andy Dowling. The podcast highlights people from a vast number of backgrounds, interests and professions. Here I talk to Andy about death in Australia, how we can do better and what innovations are on the not to distant horizon that will change our grief experiences.
The American National Home Funeral Alliance have been promoting and educating people about home funerals for a very long time. In this podcast they endeavour to bring peoples stories to life. I was lucky enough to be invited to tell my story of how we brought home and cared for my grandmother when she died.
Have you ever considered what your funeral will be like? Who will attend.. what will they say… what will be chosen by way of flowers, music and decoration… will there be tears.. will people celebrate you and all you meant to them? But more than that, what would you say if you had the chance… What would your last words be? Last week Edwin and I were privileged to have the opportunity to attend the very first living funeral ceremony in Tasmania. The very generous and thoughtful Maria Lazovic came to Tasmania and offered her Living Funeral session for the lovely people of Hobart. More than just a time to contemplate mortality, this is a few hours of intense soul searching and internal reconciliation of both what is
I am so pleased to be able to share with you all the report I submitted for my Churchill Fellowship. Some of you might know that when I sat to write I came up with about 80,000 words and so it was with the help of two incredibly supportive and courageous women that I identified the main points and created something manageable for a report. Annetta and Pia, I can not thank you enough. The rest has not gone to waste, I am considering options for putting it into a book. You will find the report is now available on my Fellowship page on the website of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Just click the ‘download now’ button and the report will appear. I hope there’s a little something
Time just seems to fly. Sometimes I wonder if that is how I will feel when my own life comes to its inevitable end. I hope to look back on the people I have loved, the places I have been and all the beautiful moments that I have shared with the special people in my life. But will I think it’s all been too fleeting? There are few things more powerful in the world than our memories and connections with each other – often with age, our memories fade but the feelings they leave us can most often stay a lifetime. In the last six months, we have been making some of those beautiful lifetime connections. As many of you know I went traveling in 2019 after being
In 2019 the Australian Choice Magazine published a four part series of articles lifting the lid on funeral home, practices and they also looked at alternative options. I was please to provide information for the series and give an interview for the fourth article.
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