Deathwalker's Guide to Life

Deathwalker's Guide to Life host Kerry Sunderland speaks to Chris Dunn about her work as a clinicial nurse educator at Nelson Hospice and how it's possible to live well with a life-limiting illness.

In this episode, Kerry Sunderland speaks with ceramic artist Suvira McDonald about his life, his experiences with death, and the beautiful urns he makes.

The annual Community Day of the Dead Ceremony began in the Byron Bay region in 2007. This year’s ceremony, which will be held later this year, will be the 20th and the ceremony’s founder Zenith Virago recently travelled to Aotearoa to offer a training to local deathwalkers who may wish to run a Day of the Dead Ceremony in their own community. In this episode, Kerry Sunderland speaks with three participants at the training: funeral celebrant Kelly Townsend; Sharlene Greer, who describes herself as a life celebrant and weaver of ceremonies; and Illenia Di Nicola – better known as Dinni – a wellbeing practitioner who supports others to focus on connection to the self with creative wellness practices.

Meet Death Without Debt founder and spokesperson Fergus Wheeler

Zenith Virago, founder of Australia's Natural Death Care Centre, returns to the show to discuss the evolution of the Deathwalker Training programme with Deathwalker's Guide to Life host Kerry Sunderland.

Deathwalker's Guide to Life host Kerry Sunderland speaks with deep listener Anna Groves. Anna is a Centre for Nonviolent Communication certified trainer, co-creator (with Katie Lane) of Inner Nature Cards, and is currently undertaking a Masters in Counselling in narrative therapy. She is also a singer-songwriter who, with her husband Rob ten Broeke, wrote 'Stumble', the theme song for this show.

In this episode, Deathwalker's Guide to Life host Kerry Sunderland speaks with Utah-based Catharine DeLong during her recent visit to Aotearoa New Zealand.

Catharine is a certified music thanatologist, hospice chaplain, end-of-life educator, and harp teacher, who tends to the emotional, physical and spiritual needs of palliative patients in Salt Lake City with harp and voice.

Meet: Deathwalker's Guide to Life host and producer Kerry Sunderland reunites with artist and deathwalker Aralyn Doiron to discuss 'A Knock on the Door' , Death on Screen: How Grief and Loss Can Feel Like a Ball in a Box

Death in Print: Reckless, Why We Are Here, Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here, Meet: Authors Marele Day, Briohny Doyle and Heather Rose (second half of panel discussion recorded live at the 2023 Byron Writers Festival), Death on Screen: Lambs of God

Death in Print: Reckless, Why We Are Here, Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here, Meet: Authors Marele Day, Briohny Doyle and Heather Rose (first half hour of panel discussion recorded live at the 2023 Byron Writers Festival), Death on Screen: Lambs of God

Death in Print: One Curious Doctor by Hilton Koppe, Meet: Educator, author and doctor Hilton Koppe (second half hour of interview, recorded live at the 2023 Byron Writers Festival), Death on Screen: Patch Adams

Death in Print: One Curious Doctor by Hilton Koppe, Meet: Educator, author and doctor Hilton Koppe (first half hour of interview, recorded live at the 2023 Byron Writers Festival), Death on Screen: Patch Adams

Death in Print: The Last Days of Joy by Anne Tiernan, Meet: Author Anne Tiernan, Death on Screen: A Man Called Otto

Death in Print: All The Living And The Dead by Hayley Campbell, Meet: Author and broadcaster Hayley Campbell (second half hour of interview, recorded live at the 2023 Byron Writers Festival), Death on Screen: Q&A with Hayley Campbell

Death in Print: All The Living And The Dead by Hayley Campbell, Meet: Author and broadcaster Hayley Campbell (first half hour of interview, recorded live at the 2023 Byron Writers Festival), Death on Screen: Q&A with Hayley Campbell

Death in Print: Ripiro Beach: A memoir of life after near death, Meet: Author and literary citizen Caroline Barron, Death on Screen: Taboo Education YouTube channel

Death in Print: Loss Adjustment by Linda Collins, Meet: Author and publisher Iona Winter, Death on Screen: On the Couch With My Depression by Paula Harris

Death in Print: Goodbye: For Times of Sadness & Loss by Melanie G Mason, Meet: Funeral director, celebrant and death cafe co-host Laura Manson, Death on Screen: The Undertaker by Green Renaissance Films

Death in Print: Levels of Life by Julian Barnes, Meet: celebrant and deathwalker Sacha Hoogerwerf, Death on Screen: The Flight Attendant

Death in Print: Grey Urbanist columns, Meet: Writer and performer Ro Cambridge, Death on Screen: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Death in Print: This is farewell: readings and meditations on death & dying by Pinky Agnew, Meet: Celebrant and author Pinky Agnew, Death on Screen: Online Deathwalker Training

Death in Print: Staying by Jessie Cole, Meet: Urologist, surgeon and assisted dying practitioner Frank Kueppers, Death on Screen: Lecretia's Choice

Death in Print: Words of Comfort by Rebekah Ballagh, Meet: Threshold singing group director Valerie Wycoff, Death on Screen: Threshold Choir website

Death in Print: 'Facing Extinction' by Catherine Ingram, Meet: Environmental activist and Living Legacies founder Lynda Hannah, Death on Screen: Living in the Time of Dying

Death in Print: Dying: A memoir by Cory Taylor, Meet: Home-based death care practitioner Claire Turnham, Death on Screen: Death is not the endpoint featuring Zach Bush

Death in Print: My Mother and Other Secrets by Wendyl Nissen and Remember Me by Charity Norman, Meet: Deathwalker and artist Aralyn Doiron, Death on Screen: Trail of Light and Giving Back to the Earth by Green Renaissance

Death in Print: Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey, Meet: Dr Kathryn L Smith, GP who provides physician-assisted dying services, Death on Screen: Station Eleven

Death in Print: Finding True Connections by Gareth St John Thomas, Meet: Krisca Gould and Mary Garner from Nelson Tasman Hospice, Death on Screen: Te Kahu Pairuri o Aotearoa Hospice New Zealand website

Death in Print: The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey, Meet: Funeral director, interfaith minister and author Jackie Bailey Death on Screen: The Beautiful Lie

Death in Print: 'Thanksgiving in Mongolia' by Ariel Levy, Meet: Christchurch Death Cafe and Death Matters NZ founder Melanie Mayell Death on Screen: Baz Luhrmann's 'Elvis'

Death in Print: Actions & Travels: How Poetry Works by Anna Jackson, Meet: Singer/ songwriter Nick Feint Death on Screen: 'Good Bones' by Maggie Smith

Death in Print: Wild Darkness by Eva Saulitis, Meet: Natural burial pioneer Dawn Jones and her daughter Sylvia Bauer Death on Screen: NZ Natural Burial directory

Death in Print: An Hour to Live, An Hour to Love by Richard Carlson, Meet: Storyteller Tanya Batt, Death on Screen: Imagined Worlds website

Death in Print: What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix, Meet: Septuagenerian climate activist Bill McEwan, Death on Screen: Nelson Poetry Map featuring Bill Manhire's poem, 'Kevin'

Death in Print: Death and its Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Beautiful Lessons by Becky Aud-Jennison, Meet: Deathwalker and author Becky Aud-Jennison, Death on Screen: 'Good Grief'

Death in Print: No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, Meet: author and brain tumour survivor Bonnie Etherington, Death on Screen: Lotje Sodderland's documentary, 'My Beautiful Broken Brain'

Death in Print: Mortals: How the Fear of Death Shaped Human Society by Rachel & Ross Menzies Meet: psychologist & author Rachel Menzies, Death on Screen: Lisel Mueller on 'The Marginalian'

Death in Print: H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, Meet: Poet & playwright Donna McLeod, Death on Screen: 'Living with Ghosts'

Death in Print: No Pressure, No Diamonds: Mining for Gifts in Illness & Loss by Teri A. Dillion, Meet: Legal executive Marie Austin, Death on Screen: 'I Told You I Was Ill: The Life & Legacy of Spike Milligan'

Death in Print: Listen: Finding the Words for Tender Conversations by Kathryn Mannix, Meet: Author Kathryn Mannix, Death on Screen: 'Phone of the Wind'

In this episode, host/producer Kerry Sunderland speaks with New Zealand writer, feminist, and arachnophobe Jacqueline (‘Rock’) Bublitz , who wrote her debut novel Before You Knew My Name after spending a summer in New York, where she hung around morgues and the dark corners of city parks (and the human psyche) far too often.

What is a deathwalker? Kerry Sunderland talks to Zenith Virago, founder of the Natural Death Care Centre and creator of the Deathwalker Training Programme. This episode also features Stumble by Rob and Anna and a review of Let's Talk About Death by Anna Sale.