Rhiannon Thomas is no ordinary lawyer.

A deeply reflective professional, and sensitive to a gap in her practice many years ago, she set off to learn how to better understand her client’s emotional world, and how it influenced their wishes and their actions. She discovered integrative law - an approach that aligned with the person she felt she was.

Warrant Officer Stephné Le Roux of the South African Police Service (SAPS) provides intimate detail of her fascinating work identifying skeletal remains. What is the story they tell?

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. 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?

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.