Death can be a daunting subject, but it is a necessary conversation

The How to Die podcast is a vessel to empower listeners with valuable end-of-life information that is important for families and society. AVBOB and the founder of the How To Die podcast series, Sean O’Connor, will sensitively delve into the one destination we all have in common but seldom talk about, with a new season.

March 2024

Season 3 Podcast 1 - The Human Composting Specialist

Brie Smith, from Seattle in USA is trained as a mortician years ago. Brie is now part of an incredible team providing Terramation™, a process developed to enhance natural decomposition and help get you right back into Mother Earth.

March 2024

Season 3 Podcast 2 - The Right to Die Activist

In this episode Sean Davison discusses the campaign currently underway to legalise assisted dying and voluntary euthanasia in South Africa.

March 2024

Season 3 Podcast 3 - The Death Row Chaplain

Russ Ford is witness to life and death in the US prison system, where he was a spiritual companion to those condemned to die.

March 2024

Season 3 Podcast 4 - The Midwife

Veteran teaching midwife Ciske van Straaten has vast experience of helping bring life into the world, and also been intimately involved in death.

March 2024

Season 3 Podcast 5 - The Healing Doctor

Dr. Ela Manga is an integrative medical doctor, highly attuned to the relationship between different systems in the body.

March 2024

Season 3 Podcast 6 - The Soul Carer

Dr. Mary Ryan is a priest and soul carer, someone with great experience of providing spiritual care at the end of life.

March 2024

Season 3 Podcast 7 - The Funeral Industry Insider

Adriaan Bester is an industry veteran, someone who understands at lot about the funeral industry.

March 2024

Season 3 Podcast 8 - The Surgeon

Dr Ivan Schewitz is a veteran explorer of the thoracic cavity, having saved and improved many lives in his long and pioneering surgical career.

March 2024

Season 3 Podcast 9 - The Grief Companion

Keshnie Mathi is the Grief Companion - a human compendium of diverse emotion, humour, compassion and wisdom, wrapped in the professional ability to listen. In this episode, she details how she supports people in their grief.

March 2024

Season 3 Podcast 10 - The Professional Organizer

Jill Katz is the person you want by your side to help navigate all the stuff a loved one leaves behind.