Jill Katz is the person you want by your side to help navigate all the stuff a loved one leaves behind.

Grief is a hard word - a bit of a blunt instrument, in fact. Where there is love, it follows, as the night does after day. And when the sun rises, you find yourself changed…

Dr Ivan Schewitz is a veteran explorer of the thoracic cavity, having saved and improved many lives in his long and pioneering surgical career.

Adriaan Bester is an industry veteran, a deeply compassionate soul who balances curiosity and innovation with tradition.

Dr. Mary Ryan is a priest and soul carer, someone with great experience of providing spiritual care at the end of life.

Dr. Ela Manga is an integrative medical doctor, highly attuned to the relationship between different systems in the body. She has deep experience of how the breath plays a leading part in how we live and how we die. Her work is radical and gentle, profound and compassionate.

Veteran teaching midwife Ciske van Straaten has vast experience of helping to bring life into the world, and has also been intimately involved in death. What has this taught her? What have these two moments got in common? How do they relate to each other, in the cycle of life?

Russ Ford is witness to life and death in the US prison system, where he was a spiritual companion to those condemned to die.

In this maelstrom of fearful savagery and self-righteous retribution, his unlikely story is a compelling one - of compassion, courage, patience and redemption.

Who has the right to determine how someone else should die? Whose death is it anyway?

In this episode, Sean Davison provides a compassionate response to these questions, which accompanies his courageous example.

Do you recycle? Then meet Brie Smith, from Return Home in Seattle, USA, part of an incredible team providing Terramation™, a process developed to enhance natural decomposition and help get you back into Mother Earth, where you belong. Earth to earth, and dust to dust… Just as nature intended.

At the intersection of a profoundly rich Judaic spirituality and a childhood proclivity to see things others don't, Belinda Silbert is unique - a woman rabbi, a trained classical musician, a mother and someone who ventures beyond the veil.

Life is an expensive business, sometimes it feels like it costs money just to breathe. And when that breath stops… What happens then? As responsibilities and priorities shift in the approach to death, or in its wake, so we change too. Here’s how you can do it better.

Dr. Kathryn Smith trained as a fine artist and won all the accolades. The world was at her feet. But a persistent fascination with forensic identification, fostered in childhood, meant that she was to make a new path, one that allowed her to walk into different worlds…

Adriaan Bester wants to be aquamated when he dies. What does he mean? As the person who helped bring this technology to South Africa, he happens to have an insiders view of everything it entails.

Nomakhaya Solombela is the CEO of Independent Crematoria of South Africa. She delves into the fears, superstitions and misconceptions about a vital practice that remains taboo for many.

What is a soul’s journey after it leaves a body? Dr Lokesh Maharajh, Head of the Priests Council at the Hindu Maha Sabha, shares the intel.

“Not everyone can do this work,” says Dr Linda Liebenberg, consultant state pathologist at Tygerberg Mortuary in Cape Town. “It chooses you, not the other way around.” And then of course, there’s the fourteen years of training…

Simon Lupini looks like an ordinary bloke, and is. Except he does something not many people know how to do.

The Undertaker is a candid interview with a man who teaches us that respecting the dead means respecting the living.

Hold onto your hats, and enjoy the ride!

We’re on the same road dear friend, the road to the grave. What are the final stops you’ll make on the way? Sr. Margot van der Wielen shares her perspective…

It’s not as if you were planning to go in an ambulance that day, right? You’re not wearing your best underwear, and didn’t pack a snack.