What Now? On the threshold of life, death, and grief.
Presented by palliative and bereavement health care professionals Julie Brown, Red Keating and David Kennedy. Dying is one of the few experiences we will all share, yet little is done in our culture to prepare us for this inevitability and it's resulting bereavement and grief. Drawing on their vast knowledge and experience each episode is a conversation meant to enlighten and demystify the often difficult and emotional experiences of dying, death and bereavement. Presented in partnership with Hospice Peterborough.
What Now? On the threshold of life, death, and grief.
S4E11: Giving Up The Ghost
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We are honoured to speak with best selling ghost writer Samantha Rose about her mother’s death by suicide and the bewildering yet healing journey of grief that followed. That journey is at the heart of her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost: A Daughter’s Memoir.
In this open and honest discussion Samantha shares the initial shock of her mother’s death and the complexity of losing someone to a death by suicide. Samantha guides us through the initial shock of her mother’s death, how her mother comes to her in dreams, and her writing ultimately leads to a greater understanding and compassion for her mother. This is a journey of pain and sorrow, confusion and questions, searching and finding and ultimately about the love between a mother and daughter.
Samantha Rose is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter and Emmy award winning television writer. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Oprah and Harper’s Bazaar. Giving Up The Ghost: A Daughter's Memoir is her first publication under her own name.
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