Remembering A Life

What happens when you ask the questions that matter most? In this episode, host Gail Marquardt and guest Skip Weiss use the Have the Talk of a Lifetime Conversation Cards to share meaningful stories about childhood...

The holidays can be difficult when we're grieving – or supporting someone who is. Alex Mammadyarov, a writer and psychotherapist specializing in grief, joins us for a conversation about the challenges of grieving during...

John Hill didn't start his career planning funerals. He began in ministry, dedicating his life to serving his community from a place of faith. When he felt a calling to step away from his role as a pastor, he found...

[CW: Traumatic death, suicide and infant loss] Amanda King, a funeral director and embalmer specializing in restorative art, has given numerous families the gift of viewing their loved one after a traumatic death. In...

The death of a child is perhaps the most unfathomable loss any of us can imagine. Kristin James and Betsy Hawley, through their work with the Grief Network and the Pediatric Palliative Care Coalition, help ensure...

Let's have a conversation about life, death and how we want to be remembered! Jamie Kramer, founder/CEO of Earthly After, is ready to talk about everything from how our prior experiences with death inform what we want...

Lanae Strovers just might be one of the most creative funeral directors out there. From transforming a visitation room into a baseball field to honor a Little League coach, to creating a runway featuring clothing...

Think you know what a typical funeral director looks like? Get ready for a new generation that challenges your perceptions! In fact, the funeral directors of tomorrow are mostly women, many are people of color - and...

Katey Houston from Return Home in Auburn, Washington, joins us as we dig into the topic of natural organic reduction, commonly referred to as human composting. This relatively new form of disposition offers a unique...

Nicholas Welzenbach grew up in funeral service but as a young person he pursued his passions of surfing and skateboarding, convinced being a funeral director was not for him. But the profession kept drawing him back in...

Every year, people who are incarcerated die in prison, often without the compassionate hospice care that would be expected in other environments. Laura Musselman, Fernando Murillo, and the rest of the team from the...

Richard Schoeller has served grieving families and individuals throughout his professional life, initially as a funeral director and now, since the late 1990s, as a certified medium. Learn how he realized he had this...

Freddie Powell, a funeral director in Salford, England, doesn't fit the stereotype of a funeral director. As a participant on the #1 reality show Love Is Blind UK, he challenged the notion that funeral professionals are...

Cemeteries are bursting with history and, as we found out on a recent visit to Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also a fair amount of drama! Join cemetery docent Cyndi Kramer on a walkabout of this...

Benny Capaul doesn't fit the mold of what most people think of when they think of a funeral director. He feels equally at home in the embalming room or on stage doing vocals with his ska-punk rock band. He's also a...