About this Project

I connected with a friend I hadn’t seen in a while. In our conversation, she told me her father had passed away. She admitted that she didn’t really know how to grieve, how to deal with the loss. And I was stunned. This was a woman who knew how to heal sick people, how to buy and own a home, how to be a wife, and how to be a mother. She was taught all these incredible skills, and yet she didn’t know how to deal with death. Our culture had failed her.

So how DO we deal with death?
I think it starts with more open conversation.

More thinking about it. More wondering out loud about it. More reading and watching and learning about it. With more learning about how others deal with it. More engaging and confronting. More opening, more asking, more curiosity.
So, here’s a collection of conversations doing just that. Let’s have frank and gentle and honest conversations about death and grief and loss. Death is a part of our lives. People we love will pass on. We ourselves will pass away. So let’s wrestle with this truth and in turn, hopefully be a little more prepared for it.

Let’s do some reckoning.