2019 Season

  • MAR28 – 2019 Season Prospective
    • This week, I tease a bit of the upcoming 2019 Season of the On Death Podcast! During this solo-cast, I review some of the changes in my life this past winter.
    • Then, I provide some sneak previews into the 2019 Season ahead.
  • APR12 – Mackenzi Kim Once Again
    • Mackenzi is a 27yo mother, 4th year medical student, and future family medicine physician.
    • During this emotionally vulnerable conversation, we discuss her lessons from the deaths of family members, what she has learned from a few months of motherhood, and how she imagines a wonderful reunion with loved ones after death.
  • APR25 – Eugene Kim Once Again
    • Eugene is a 29yo student, recorder, and gamer.
    • During this conversation, we talk about everything from: being indoor humans and how one day we might be more apelike to the game of Go/Baduk. The importance of connectedness and community shine throughout our conversation with an optimistic look forwards toward his future as a psychiatrist, father, and human.
  • MAY09 – Chloe Costigan
    • Chloe is a 31yo physical therapist, teacher, and half-orphan.
    • During this conversation, we discuss what makes a good clinician, why she considered herself a flight risk, and how she has been shaped by the death of her father at an early age.
  • MAY23 – Adam Arazi
    • Adam is a 30yo traveler, dog-father, and son.
    • During this conversation, we discuss his existential confusion, why he may expatriate to the Philippines, and why he intentionally does not think about sudden death.
  • JUN07 – Suzie Marschhausen
    • Suzie is a 28yo mother, writer, and coach.
    • During this conversation, we discuss her recent Ayahuasca ceremony, the difficulty of releasing attachment as a new parent, and how the pain of abandonment takes on a new meaning for her.
  • JUN21 – Nicho Watts
    • Nicho is a 30yo father, Christian, and trader.
    • During this conversation, we discuss his return to Christianity, the importance of stories and archetypes for a developing mind, and why he wants his death to feel like taking off a watch.
  • JUL06 – Dayana Pereira
    • Dayana is a 43yo Feldenkrais practitioner, co-parent, and transplant from Uruguay.
    • During this conversation, we discuss the tension between her strict religious school upbringing and the Uruguayan wilderness, the difference between reverence and spirituality, and how working as a living statue in Australia taught her the importance of breath.
  • JUL19 – Nate Baker
    • Nate is a 33yo emergency medicine resident physician, father of three, and Purple Heart recipient for wounds received in combat.
    • During this conversation, we discuss the value of song to change our mental state, his experience as a wounded infantryman, and what heaven means for a problem-solver.
  • AUG02 – Pamela Wible
    • Pamela is a 51yo family medicine physician, emotional bungee jumper, and expert on physician suicide.
    • During this conversation, we discuss her fondest childhood memories in a morgue with her father, how a pediatrician’s funeral service woke her up to the epidemic of physician suicide, and why she released her book on Juneteenth with endless optimism for a day that can change everything.
  • AUG17 – Scott H Once Again
    • Scott is a 30yo follower of Christ, family medicine resident, and realist. In the two years since our first conversation, he has experienced a truly wild ride to earn the title of physician.
    • During this interview, we discuss the lows associated with failing two board exams, how identifying with his faith kept him above water, and why he never considered himself a suicide risk when he wasn’t sure he would graduate medical school.
  • SEP14 – Camille Culbreath
    • Camille is a 27yo unexpected mama and comedian. Camille jumped on my radar this past Mother’s Day with a post about her son, Arthur, and the story of his birth via cryptic pregnancy.
    • During this conversation, we discuss how she thought she was dying when she was actually very pregnant, how her brother’s unexpected death separated her family, and how this unanticipated bundle of joy reunified her family.
  • OCT12 – Michael Douglas
    • Michael is a 53yo primitive skills teacher, community mentor, and educator.
    • During this conversation, we discuss the importance of shared story, how community reverses entropy, and why the sacred question should guide us all.
  • NOV07 – Michael Vasconez
    • Michael is a 31yo lifestyle coach, USMC combat veteran, and philosopher.
    • During this conversation, we discuss why he pressed people’s buttons as an adolescent, how his brother’s suicide drove him into the Marine Corps, and how the plant medicine ayahausca forced him to confront his years of infidelity and begin a new chapter with his spouse.
  • DEC06 – Caitlin Gray
    • Caitlin is a 31yo mother, teacher, and historian.
    • During this conversation, we discuss the loss of her daughter in utero this past April, her evolving spirituality from Catholicism to mediumship and shamanic meditative practices, and the surprise of discovering a new half-brother.
  • DEC22 – 2019 Season Retrospective
    • For this 2019 Retrospective, I reflect upon the season as a whole: the key themes being parenthood and old friends.
    • Then, I review the highlights of each interview which comprised this season. Finally, I look ahead to the return of the podcast in March 2020!