Posted: March 16, 2016

Stephen Jenkinson Interview with Dr. Rachael Kohn on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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Interview Published on March 16, 2016

Looking like Willie Nelson on a good day, Stephen Jenkinson is ‘on the road again’ telling our death-phobic culture that all the solutions for death that we come up with reinforce our fear of it.

After 20 years working alongside the dying, his manifesto, Die Wise (2015), tells us to stop making death ‘acceptable’ and learn to openly grieve it.

Grief Walker is the title of the Canadian National Film Board documentary about him, but Stephen answers to ‘Grief Monger.’

Originally posted on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation show The Spirit of Things

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