Deathwalker's Guide To Life

In this special episode of Deathwalker’s Guide to Life, Kerry Sunderland speaks with UK-based author, broadcaster, and journalist Hayley Campbell about her stunning 2022 book, All the Living and the Dead: A Personal Investigation into the Death Trade. This conversation, which will be presented in two parts over two episodes, was recorded live at Byron Writers Festival 2023. This is the first instalment of the two-part show.

Kerry Sunderland speaks with award-winning author Caroline Barron, who wrote Ripiro Beach: A memoir of life after near death and the novel Golden Days, about why it’s so important to talk about death with family members, including children.

Kerry Sunderland speaks with author and publisher Iona Winter about suicide bereavement and her new project, the Elixir & Star Press Grief Almanac. Join Kerry Sunderland for Deathwalkers Guide to Life. A show that explores how thinking and talking about death can help you live a life without regrets.

Kerry Sunderland and Laura Manson consider why each death is a unique undertaking and explore the power of ceremony and ritual. Join Kerry Sunderland for Deathwalkers Guide to Life. A show that explores how thinking and talking about death can help you live a life without regrets.

Being with dying - Kerry Sunderland speaks with celebrant and deathwalker Sacha Horton-Hoogerwerf about what it means to be 'with' someone as they walk towards death, and her desire to support children when family members have a life-limiting illness.

From posing semi-nude for Visible at 60 - the book and exhibition - to writing and performing her own one-woman show at 70, Ro Cambridge leads the way when it comes to unashamedly embracing ageing.

Kerry Sunderland chats with funeral celebrant Pinky Agnew about both her work and her new book, 'This is farewell: readings and meditations on death and dying'

Join Kerry Sunderland for Deathwalkers Guide to Life. A show that explores how thinking and talking about death can help you live a life without regrets.

Valerie Wycoff, who teaches compassionate communication and is co-director of Reflections, a group of threshold singers based in Christchurch, joins Kerry Sunderland to discuss how she and a group of fellow singers bring comfort to the dying.

Living Legacies founder Lynda Hannah talks about our mortality and the health of our planet. Featured artists include Catherine Ingram, Jem Bendell, Dahr Jamail

Claire Turnham from Only With Love (OWL) and Maanaki Mats talks about Home-based death care

Join Kerry Sunderland for Deathwalkers Guide to Life. A show that explores how thinking and talking about death can help you live a life without regrets. In this episode Kerry talks to creative artist Aralyn_Doiron

Join Kerry Sunderland for Deathwalkers Guide to Life. A show that explores how thinking and talking about death can help you live a life without regrets.

Krisca Gould and Mary Garner join Kerry Sunderland to discuss Nelson Tasman Hospice's Life Story Writing initiative, which supports those who are dying to look back and try to make sense of what their life journey has been about.

Author, independent funeral director, civil celebrant and ordained interfaith minister Dr Jackie Bailey. Kerry Sunderland chats with Jackie about her debut autobiographical novel, The Eulogy, as well as her work as a funeral director and interfaith minister.

Kerry Sunderland speaks with Melanie Mayell, who completed the Deathwalker Training Programme in 2016, about founding the Christchurch Death Cafe and Death Matters NZ, a one day conference that will be held at Turanga in Christchurch on Friday 23 September 2022.

In this episode, we explore the intrinsic link between death and grief and poetry and songwriting. Singer/songwriter Nick Feint joins Kerry Sunderland in the studio, and plays three songs from his new album, Next Exit to Babylon.

Join Kerry Sunderland is joined by Author and brain tumour survivor Bonnie Etherington to talk about our extraordinary, beautiful brains.

Around the 8th anniversary of Emery Jones’ death and burial at the Motueka Natural Burial Park, his widow Dawn Jones (92) and youngest daughter Sylvia Bauer (47) join Kerry Sunderland to discuss the concept of a ’natural death’ and how family can be involved in natural burial.

How death awareness affects how we live.