About this episode

The episode explores the sacredness of dying and the cultural shifts that have led to a death-phobic society.

Death has become something to manage, sanitise and hide. But what if dying was never meant to be reduced to a medical event? In this profound conversation, death walker Alana Woodward joins fellow death and grief doula Demi Lee and Annamaria to explore what has been lost through the medicalisation, domestication and colonisation of death - and what becomes possible when we reclaim it as a sacred rite of passage. Together, they question a culture that has become deeply death-phobic; one that often rushes bodies away, strips death of ceremony and leaves families disconnected from one of life's most transformative thresholds. Instead, they invite us into another way: one where death is not simply an ending, but a process. A liminal crossing. A sacred postpartum of the soul. This episode explores the forgotten wisdom of spending time with the body, creating ritual, tending altars, lighting candles, witnessing the dying process and re-villaging death. We speak about the profound role these practices can play in helping us metabolise grief, integrate loss and remain in relationship with those we love as they cross the threshold between worlds. Woven throughout are conversations about…

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