Life/Death/Law
22 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsMost people think estate planning is boring, too technical, all about taxes, or somebody else's problem. Don't be one of them. Let's face it, death is like sex--we all do it, everyone has questions about it, and we are all interested in everyone else's questions.
Join me, Liza Hanks, and my fascinating guests for in-depth, relevant conversations about how to get your plans in order and why it matters to the people and organizations that you love the most. You'll find yourself engaged, curious and empowered to get the job done.
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Nicole Taylor: How Community Foundations Can Help You Do Good Where You Live
July 07, 2023 19:40 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBNicole Taylor: How Community Foundations Can Help You Do Good Where You Live Nicole Taylor, the CEO and President of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, the country’s largest community foundation, talks to me about what community foundations are and how they make it easy for all of us to get off of the sidelines and make meaningful contributions in our communities. Whether you want to contribute to a fund for a particular cause, help endow your community for the lon...
Adam Tendler and Inheritances: Exploring loss through music
May 25, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutes - 78.8 MBWhen classical pianist Adam Tendler received a surprise inheritance from his father he used it to commission 16 original works of music to explore the complexity of grief, loss, and inheritance. After each performance of the resulting program, Inheritances, he was struck by the way that the audience stayed in their seats, talking to each other. "This is something I've never seen before after a recital or any kind of classical music concert where people are just talking to ea...
What's a Death Doula? Tracey Walker Tells All
February 24, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBWhat’s a Death Doula? Tracey Walker Tells All Tracey Walker, the founder of Let It Be End of Life Planning and the Program Director for End of Life Doula Training at Going with Grace, talks with me about what Death Doulas do, why they can be helpful in offering non-medical support to people facing death and their families in all kinds of ways, how to find a Death Doula if you or a loved needs support and how Death Doulas work with other care providers, like Hospice. You can...
Green Burial: Elizabeth Fournier (The Green Reaper)
December 11, 2022 13:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBGreen Burial: Elizabeth Fournier, The Green Reaper Elizabeth Fournier, owner and founder of Cornerstone Funeral Services in Boring, Oregon, and the author of The Green Burial Handbook, talks about what green burial is, what it isn’t, and how you can work with a funeral director to get the kind of burial you or your loved ones want. Learn about the surprisingly non-environmentally friendly footprint of traditional cremation and the new practices of aqua-cremation and organic...
That Good Night: Dr. Sunita Puri
November 10, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBThat Good Night: Dr. Sunita Puri Dr. Sunita Puri, Program Director of the Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at University of Massachusetts, and the author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, talks about palliative care, what doing "everything" really means, and how to tell your loved ones and your doctors what you do and don't want at the end of life. You can find her book and more about Dr. Puri here: https://sunitapuri.com/ And here’s a...
Donate Your Brain to Science: The Brain Donor Project
May 09, 2022 14:00 - 25 minutes - 57.4 MBDonate Your Brain To Science: Tish Hevel, Brain Donor Project In this episode of Women & Wills, Tish Hevel, CEO and Founder of the Brain Donor Project, explains why donating brain tissue for basic research is an incredible gift, helping researchers working to treat and cure neurological, neuropsychiatric, and neurodevelopmental disorders such as dementia and Parkinson’s. Her father , Gene Armentrout (pictured above) wanted to donate his brain to science when he died in 201...
Caregiver: A Love Story
February 19, 2022 17:42 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBIn this episode of Women & Wills, Dr. Jessica Zitter, the producer and Director of the new movie, Caregiver: a love story talks about the crisis in family caregiver burden and how the movie she thought she was making, about the hospice experience of Bambi, a 59-year old woman, who decided to die at home under hospice care, became instead the story of how her husband, Rick, became her primary caregiver, and the toll it took on him. In a verité fashion, the film takes you inside Rick’s j...
DIY Estate Planning for the Pandemic
April 03, 2020 03:22 - 9 minutes - 9.07 MBIf you are stuck at home and without basic legal documents, listen up. In the spirit of offering what I can to help people gain some piece of mind amidst the panic and uncertainty of the pandemic, here are some resources that you can use to get the basics in order, for now. Although none of the documents I’m discussing take the place of a comprehensive estate plan, they are all good things to have. And most of them are documents that you can put in place with minimal or...
Modern Loss: Rebecca Soffer
January 26, 2020 22:41 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBIn this episode of Life/Death/Law, Rebecca Soffer, the CEO and co-founder of Modern Loss, shares the insights she's gained from starting a ground-breaking website, Modern Loss, publishing a wonderful new book, Modern Loss: Candid conversations about grief. Beginner's Welcome, and hosting a national series of live storytelling events that discuss grief and loss in honest, vivid, and, above all, human,terms. Rebecca, and her co-founder and co-author, Gabrielle Birkner, both...
BJ Miller: A Beginner's Guide to the End
June 07, 2019 02:55 - 38 minutes - 36.7 MBIn this episode of Life/Death/Law, Dr. BJ Miller shares insights from his new book, A Beginner's Guide to the End. Written with co-author Shoshana Berger, the book is practical, detailed, surprisingly funny and always completely honest. From what to bring with you to the hospital (your favorite quilt, your phone charger, pictures from home), to how to tell your boss that you are really sick, to how to cultivate sex and intimacy in the face of serious illness, this is a g...
Burnout - Emily and Amelia Nagoski
April 09, 2019 03:55 - 36 minutes - 83.5 MBEmily Nagoski, PhD, and her sister Amelia Nagoski, DMA, authors of the new book, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle, know all about accomplishment -- Emily is the author of the New York Times best-seller, Come as You Are: the surprising new science that will transfrom your sex life, and Amelia is a professor of music and a classical conductor. They also know, first hand, about the feelings of emotional overwhelm and exhaustion that can come with that accomplishment, so they ...
The "F" Word (Faith)-Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel
February 18, 2019 05:09 - 28 minutes - 27 MBIn this episode of Life/Death/Law Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel, author of The Power of an Open Question and The Logic of Faith, joins me for a wonderful conversation on finding grace in a world we can't control. A longtime buddhist practitioner and worldwide teacher, she brings humor, insight and compassion to the issues we all face as human beings: how to find faith and live with grace in a life that is short and full of challenge? “As long as you are breathing and you...
Dara Kosberg: Reimagine End of Life and The Dinner Party
October 19, 2018 01:22 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBDara Kosberg, is the Director of Programming for the Reimagine End of Life Conference, beginning October 27, in New York. It will be a city-wide event that will include over 300 events, 60 Interactive Rituals, 32 performances, and 15 comedy shows. Dara is also a member of the Founding Team for The Dinner Party, a community of mostly 20-30 somethings who have each experienced profound loss and connect around potluck dinners to talk about it. Dara's vision is vast. She's o...
Michael Hebb: Death Over Dinner
September 28, 2018 02:29 - 31 minutes - 28.4 MBIn this episode of Life/Death/Law, Michael Hebb, the founder of Death Over Dinner, discusses his new book, Let's Talk About Death (Over Dinner): An Invitation and Guide to Life's Most Important Conversation. Since he founded Death Over Dinner in 2013, more than 100,000 dinners have been served where people have sat down together over a home-cooked meal to talk, really talk, about what they do and don't want at the end of their lives, and what they can do, now, to make bot...
Katy Butler: The Art of Dying Well
September 08, 2018 15:58 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBIn this episode, award-winning journalist and author Katy Butler discusses her newest book, The Art of Dying Well, as well as her memoir, Knocking on Heaven's Door, two books about meeting aging and death with grace, intelligence, and resilience. If you have ever struggled with how best to support a loved one as they confront old age, sickness, and death, or wondered what you can do, now, to make sure that your old age is as independent and healthy as possible and that yo...
Extreme Measures: Dr. Jessica Zitter
August 17, 2018 03:18 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBIn this episode of Life/Death/Law, Dr. Jessica Zitter, author of Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life, talks openly and honestly about how to communicate with your doctors about what you or a loved one wants, and doesn't want, for end of life care; how to pick the right person to act as your health care agent and make medical decisions for you; and what palliative care can offer those facing chronic illness. But more than that, she is a compassionate a...
End Well - Planning for a Better End of Life
July 06, 2018 03:37 - 29 minutes - 27 MBIn this episode of Life/Death/Law, join me for a conversation with Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider, a physician, speaker, writer, activist, and the force behind two amazing movies about end of life: Extremis and End Game, both available on Netflix (so watch them!). Dr. Ungerleider also (when not producing movies and making social change) works as an internist practicing hospital medicine at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She received her medical degree from O...
Access to Digital Assets After Death -- The Inside Scoop from Google
June 03, 2018 23:41 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBIn this episode of Life/Death/Law, Einat Sandman Clarke, Senior Counsel at Google LLC provides an inside look at how Google handles requests for digital assets (like emails, photos, and videos) after someone has died and discusses the broader legal landscape that governs all service providers facing requests to release digital communications belonging to their users. Learn how to use Google's Inactive Account Manger to control access to your digital assets (like email, vi...
Talking About the Hard Stuff
April 05, 2018 05:02 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBIn this episode I'm taking to Dr. Muffie Weibe Waterman, author of Wired to Listen, a book about how what we say to kids, and don't, impacts the way that kids see the world and act in it. In her book, Dr. Waterman writes about how, and when, to talk to kids about the hard stuff; death, divorce, and sex--topics that we all struggle with addressing honestly and effectively with our kids. I asked her to be on the show because many of the people that I work with, and many of t...
The Practice of Generosity
March 15, 2018 04:39 - 17 minutes - 24 MBWhat is estate planning, really? I know that most lawyers focus on reducing taxes, or the creation of documents, but when you get down to it, what you’re really doing when you make an estate plan is giving everything away, right? So, to me, understanding the practice of generosity and what gets in the way of being generous are central to effective estate planning, and who better to explore that territory than my guest for episode 3 of Life/Death/Law: Myoshin Kelley, an elo...
Dealing with Dementia
March 15, 2018 04:25 - 30 minutes - 70 MBIn this episode, I’m taking a look at a difficult moment — you visit your parents and realize that your parents just seem…. a little bit different, just not the same as they used to be–more forgetful, more agitated, or suddenly involved with people that you don’t know or trust. Join me for a candid discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Landsverk, a board-certified physician in Internal medicine, Geriatric medicine, and Palliative care medicine. She’s also the founder of ElderConsu...
Prenups
March 13, 2018 02:41 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MBIn this first episode Emily Bouchard, a family dynamics and money coach and the managing partner at Wealth Legacy Group, talks to me about money and the difficulties that families often have in engaging in honest conversations about it. Emily offers fascinating insights into why money can be such a hard thing to talk about, and tips for helping to get these conversations started. I asked her to be on my show because, so often, a long, uncomfortable silence falls across the ...