by Brant Huddleston | May 8, 2016 | Blogpost, Death and Dying, Planning for Death
This post was inspired by BJ Miller, MD ~ a palliative care physician at Zen Hospice Project who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients, and encourages us to apply design thinking to this global challenge. You can watch...
by Brant Huddleston | May 2, 2016 | Aging, Blogpost, Matters of the Heart
There is a method to my madness with all this (see below), but for now I just want to have some fun! Use the button below to record a brief description of the wildest, weirdest, most fun, craziest, most unusual, non-pornographic experience you’ve ever had...
by Brant Huddleston | Apr 3, 2016 | Podcast
Turn Your Cremated Ashes into a Tree Have you ever wanted to have your cremated ashes turned into a tree? Well now you can! Roger and his team invented a way to add cremains to a planter that would look at home on any patio or front porch, but that contains the ashes...
by Brant Huddleston | Mar 18, 2016 | Blogpost, Death and Dying, Matters of the Heart, Memorials & Memoirs
jaspertine / CC BY 3.0 Atomic Music Music by the artist Jaspertine using my poem “O Cool Electric Blue” about the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the US at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945. The final mix, called “Losing the...
by Brant Huddleston | Mar 15, 2016 | Blogpost, Matters of the Heart, Memorials & Memoirs
Derek Sivers is the successful founder of CDBaby and a person I admire. His book “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur” is one I highly recommend. I normally respect Derek’s way of thinking, but a recent blog post of his,...
by Brant Huddleston | Mar 12, 2016 | Blogpost, Death and Dying, Matters of the Heart
Recently I posted on my personal Facebook page a desire to fly in one of those rocket wingsuits before I die. I got some very funny responses along the lines of, “Well, if you do fly in one, your death wish may very well come true!” Hahaha!...
by Brant Huddleston | Mar 11, 2016 | Blogpost, Matters of the Heart
I did not write the following parable, but I like the lesson it teaches. Photo by The Humane Society of the United States – Flickr: “the Greats” CC 2.0 Who are you? There is a story they tell of two dogs. Both dogs, at separate times, walk into the...
by Brant Huddleston | Mar 6, 2016 | Matters of the Heart, Near Death Experiences, Podcast
Hey everybody…I earn a percentage of the books and other products you buy off this page. It doesn’t cost you a penny more but helps me..so thanks in advance if you choose to buy from here. All sales via Amazon. What We Can Learn from Near Death Experiences...
by Brant Huddleston | Mar 3, 2016 | Aging, Death and Dying, Matters of the Heart, Planning for Death, Podcast
Although death touched me personally in 1992 with the loss of my father and older brother, I still had the nagging feeling that my show did not pay proper respect to an event, albeit a natural and inevitabel one, that can be emotionally devestating. This shorter than...
by Brant Huddleston | Feb 16, 2016 | Blogpost, Matters of the Heart
While I was in South America, people asked me about Donald Trump. “We don’t understand,” they would say frantically. “Why are the American people interested in this madman? How can you explain it to us in a way that makes sense?” One...
