Category Archives: Professional Advice

Dr. Kami Fletcher is a death scholar and professor of U.S. and African American history at Albright College. Her work focuses on African American deathways and deathwork, examining African American norms and ideas surrounding death as well as ways that … Continue reading →

Dr. Brian Carter has always been interested in the ethics of medicine. Early on in his pediatric career, he became involved with bioethics committees that were seeking to improve the end-of-life experience for patients and their families. However, as a … Continue reading →

William Spear wears many hats. A self-described “lifelong student,” he’s studied death and dying with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Buddhism with Tibetan Lama Sogyal Rinpoche and macrobiotic health with Japanese practitioner Michio Kushi. After recovering from an illness in the 1970s by … Continue reading →

Kaethe Weingarten, Ph.D., is keenly attuned to the pressing need for social justice. Grappling both with illness’s impact on families and with the repercussions of witnessing violence, Dr. Weingarten is dedicated to promoting what she calls “reasonable hope.” After receiving … Continue reading →

Jackie Vanderbeck has been building connections through music and storytelling since she was a child. The daughter of a dancer, her own creative expressions and musical performances were encouraged and nurtured during her youth in Sacramento, California. By the age … Continue reading →

Mia Munayer is the fiercely intelligent, compassionate, self-possessed founder of Bridgewatch Angels, a group that works to prevent suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge, and a police lieutenant in Pleasanton, California, a suburb of the Bay Area. Munayer was made … Continue reading →