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This week I return to my conversation with Stephanie Poirier, Partner Success Manager at Parting Stone, to touch on why being a “death curious” person can be beneficial to your family, friends, and community. From starting difficult conversations, to protecting the rights of marginalized folx in end of life care, Death Curious people can help everyone confront death in healthier ways. 

Created and hosted by and Alexandra Jo (they/them), Director of Outreach and Education at Parting Stone. Produced by Parting Stone.

For more Death Curious content get our newsletter, and follow us on TikTok and Instagram. Death Curious is produced by Parting Stone. To learn more about Parting Stone and solidified remains visit Parting Stone's website.

This week I have the pleasure of talking to Eileen Hollis, Licensed Funeral Director at Hollis Funeral Home, about death on social media! Eileen runs the TikTok and Instagram accounts for Hollis Funeral Home and has built a following of nearly a million people between the two platforms. In this episode, we talk about why social media is a great place for death education, what content death curious folx are looking for on social media, and how the internet can actually be a really great place for building community.



Created and hosted by and Alexandra Jo (they/them), Director of Outreach and Education at Parting Stone.

For more Death Curious content get our newsletter, and follow us on TikTok and Instagram. Death Curious is produced by Parting Stone. To learn more about Parting Stone and solidified remains visit Parting Stone's website.

In this episode, I have the pleasure of chatting with Chase Downs (he/him), Demand Gen Specialist at Gather, to talk about Technology in the Death Care Profession. Gather is an innovative technology platform built specifically for funeral homes, that helps both funeral directors and families. Until the Covid-19 pandemic, death care was far behind other professions technology-wise. Chase and I discuss some of the benefits that have come from funeral services moving forward rapidly when it comes to things like live-streamed funeral services, remote memorial planning, and normalizing death care businesses having websites.



Created and hosted by and Alexandra Jo (they/them), Director of Outreach and Education at Parting Stone.

For more Death Curious content, get our ⁠newsletter and follow us on TikTok and Instagram. Death Curious is produced by Parting Stone. To learn more about Parting Stone and solidified remains visit Parting Stone's website.

This week I’m so excited to return to my conversation with Rev. Cat Webb (they/them), Metaphysical Celebrant, Spiritual Educator, and Psychopomp, to talk about the spiritual weight of death avoidance. Both death avoidance and grief avoidance are pervasive in our society. In this conversation, Rev. Cat and I take a deep dive into how death and loss became taboo subjects, and why avoiding the reality of human ephemerality can have major impacts on mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing.
Created and hosted by and Alexandra Jo (they/them), Director of Outreach and Education at Parting Stone.

For more Death Curious content, get our ⁠newsletter,⁠ follow us on TikTok and Instagram. Death Curious is produced by Parting Stone. To learn more about Parting Stone and solidified remains visit Parting Stone's website.

This week I’m excited to talk with Stephanie Poirier, Partner Success Manager at Parting Stone, about all things alkaline hydrolysis! Stephanie was instrumental in getting alkaline hydrolysis legalized in California, and explains this gentle, eco-friendly disposition option in detail for us. We also talk about the intense push-back this disposition method has gotten from funeral professionals, and how important it is to realize the benefits of making this option more widely available.

Created and hosted by and Alexandra Jo (they/them), Director of Outreach and Education at Parting Stone.

Death Curious is produced by Parting Stone. For more Death Curious content, get our ⁠newsletter,⁠ follow us on TikTok and Instagram. To learn more about Parting Stone and solidified remains visit Parting Stone's website.

Deathcare Decoded is expanding! We are rebranding to expand our content and mission statement, and in this special transitional episode, I will walk you through the inspiration behind this growth. Death Curious is a platform for death exploration and a community of like-minded, death positive people. We imagine a future in which talking about death is normalized, comfortable, and even encouraged. Through death positive education, our goal is to help you better understand your own mortality, gain confidence talking to others about theirs, and to build a supportive community of mortality explorers.

Created and hosted by and Alexandra Jo (they/them), Director of Outreach and Education at Parting Stone.

Produced by Parting Stone. To learn more about Parting Stone and solidified remains visit Parting Stone's website.