Dare To Listen, The Podcast

Tawnya Musser, founder of Dear Departures, is a Home Funeral Guide, Life-Cycle Celebrant, and End-of-Life Doula offering services in the Denver Metro and surrounding areas. Tawnya shares how her journey through life informed her transition into the world of death and dying. Hear how she shifted from a headspace of ‘We’re all going to die, so what’s the point?’ to a place of ‘Yes, we’re going to die. So, what can we do to be prepared and empowered in our choices?’ We talk ‘go-to’ death practices, and their impact on the land, our environment, and our finances. We discuss and define terms including green burial, home funeral, water cremation, burial vaults, what it means to be ‘death positive,’ and what a funeral celebrant is.   We delve into engaging children in conversations about death, by introducing how cultures throughout the world have a variety of ways to care for the bodies of their dead. We explore how being in the presence of the deceased’s body has value as it relates to grief, and the ways in which