Ep. 370 Date with Death Club: Exploring Mortality in Community with Rev. Karen Johnston

End-of-Life University

Learn about a free curriculum you can bring to your community to foster conversations about death.

My guest Rev. Karen Johnston is an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and the founder of Date with Death Club. Her own spiritual practice centers on “befriending death” and she shares how this led her to create the curriculum for Date with Death Club. We discuss how to work on befriending death and why education about death is essential. Karen tells us how to join the Date with Death Club and register to use her curriculum for free. Learn more at her website:

www.datewithdeathclub.com

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This episode includes:

• Karen’s spiritual practice of befriending death
• The benefits of making friends with death and losing fear
• We must go through the fear of death rather than around it
• How Karen became inspired to create the Date with Death Club
• The subjects included in this secular curriculum and how they can be used in a variety of ways
• What are “third things” and why they help us explore our heartspace about difficult issues
• The importance of addressing our “eco-grief” right now
• Why Karen is offering it for others to use at no charge
• How to get involved and utilize the curriculum in your own community

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Link to register for Barbara Karnes RN and Karen Wyatt MD presenting online to DDNBC
• Death and Dying Class Instructor Training
• Step-by-Step Roadmap for End-of-Life Planning
• Date with Death Club monthly online
• Date with Death Club monthly in-person
• Lost Souls Public Memorial Project
• Poem: Feeding the Worms by Danusha Lameris
• Joanna Macy and her work
• Donate to Rev. Karen’s work (Scroll down to find Venmo QR code)

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