Jen Stevens left this world on Tuesday, July 26, 2022. In today’s program, her daughter Darshan Stevens talks about Jen’s life, her medically assisted death (MAID) and the changes that came about throughout this process.
“My biggest grief was when my mom received her diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer and my longest grief is probably what I was going into now, after she’s passed,” explained Darshan.
Continue reading Darshan Stevens: on her mother’s life, death and the grieving processNatural Burial & Community-Led Deathcare: FolkU Radio@89.5FM
Where we ask our neighbours: What do you know? It’s that time of year when the light is short and the natural world around is in its big rest, preparing for transformation. I feel particularly appreciate to be spending this season in this strange and tumultuous time, here on this island, surrounded by the natural world and by this community. Margaret Verschuur helped bring together the Cortes Island Deathcare Initiative and has served as a death doula on Cortes and Quadra Islands. In this episode she and Emma Tius, the new contact person for the Death-Care Collective, to discuss what community death care are and what natural burial looks like on Cortes and Quadra Islands.
Continue reading Folk U: Natural Burial & Community-Led DeathcareIn our feature radio interview this morning, Francesca is talking to Joyce Baker of Way to Go, a group of Quadrites and Cortesians who have been exploring topics related to death and dying for over three years.
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