WORT 89.9FM Madison · Death Rituals in the Era of COVID with Professor Natasha Mikles Virtual funerals can now be added to the list of formerly unimaginable things brought about […]
Return to Nature: Green Burial Practices
A green burial is a process caring for the dead with minimal environmental impact. On today’s show, guest host Gene Delcourt leads an end-of-year discussion about end-of-life choices with Rev. […]
Going Gently Into the Long Night
“He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.” Those are the words of the French Renaissance writer Michel de Montaigne, who believed […]
Lives Lost: Nursing Homes and Armed Militias
First up in today’s two-part show, Patrick Woodall from Americans for Financial Reform talks about the problem of private equity firms in the healthcare sector and offers details from his […]
Care Work and Our Responsibility to the Elderly
The front page of Sunday’s New York Times featured a list of one thousand names of Americans who have died from coronavirus. At the time of publication, the COVID-19 death […]
The Farewell: How to Have Good End-of-Life Conversations
Death is a heavy topic for people. We go to great lengths to avoid it and sometimes even greater lengths just to avoid talking about it. But when a family […]
