Wild with Sarah Wilson18 Jun 2024

FRANK OSTASESKI: How to live fully when it feels like so much is dying

Frank Ostaseski (Buddhist; end-of-life teacher; elder) helps people die best. He has accompanied over 1,000 people through the dying process and trained thousands of healthcare clinicians and family caregivers around the world. He was also a lecturer at Harvard Medical School and has taught at Google and Apple Inc., has been honoured by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and appeared on Oprah and Sam Harris’ Making Sense podcast. I asked Frank to join me to talk through his book, The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully.

Death, grief and loss are always with us, but I feel we are needing moral and spiritual guidance more than ever (every 6-12 months or so I try to cover this issue on Wild, generally aligning with a dialling up in world events). In this chat Frank and I talk through simple techniques for coping with the loss we’re feeling watching the carnage in Gaza, witnessing climate destruction and polarisation.

SHOW NOTES

Get hold of The Five Invitations

Here’s Frank Ostaseski's website where you can find a bunch of resources

You might like to listen to the interview I did with death walker Stephen Jenkinson

And this conversation with Clancy Martin about grief and suicide

As well as my glorious chat with Sister Helen Prejean and the other death row episode with Devin Moss

If you need to know a bit more about me… head to my "about" page

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