Ep.25: Honoring the Death of Things: An Ode to Letting Go

About this episode

This episode explores how cultural tendencies around death and endings can hinder our ability to grieve and move forward.

Our modern world rushes past death and endings, urging us to "move on" before we've properly acknowledged what's been lost. But what if this cultural tendency keeps us subtly tethered to the past, preventing us from fully opening to what comes next? Inspired by the death of the hawk on a busy urban street (and the woman who stopped to collect her body), this episode examines how cultural barriers like commodification, clock-time orientation, and death aversion block our natural grieving proc...

People in this episode

Host: Shannon M. Wills

Topics covered

• grief
• letting go
• cultural barriers
• death
• acknowledgment
• spirituality

Keywords

• death
• grieving process
• cultural barriers
• letting go
• spirituality
• acknowledgment
• urban life

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