Until We Meet Again

At 20 weeks pregnant, Lindsey R. Dennis and her husband were told the child she was carrying would not live due to a fatal diagnosis. Later, in another stunning blow, they were told the same news with her second pregnancy. They chose to celebrate both lives alongside a community, both local and online, of hundreds of thousands as she carried each child to term only to bury them 14 months apart from each other.

Experiencing the loss of a baby is one of the worst things that can happen to a parent. My guest today is Stacy Verdick Case, a spirit-filled woman whose relationship with God became very strained after the death of her very young son, Marshall. Stacy was 5 months pregnant when she gave birth to her first child, but he unfortunately was too small to survive.  You can learn more about her here: http://www.peonylanedesigns.com/

The Good Grief Devotional offers wise, honest companionship to those who struggle with the death of a loved one, a divorce, the loss of a job, or another major life transition. Pastor Brent D. Christianson's fifty-two devotions follow the ten stages of grief outlined in Granger Westberg's helpful book, Good Grief.

Aimee discusses organ and tissue donation and how easy it is to sign up through Donate Life Northwest.  https://www.donatelifenw.org/register-now

Heather Michet is a Ceremonialist, Songstress and healing guide who believes in the healing power of ceremony and music to guide and support us through our grief. Find out more at www.purplecrowsings.com

Josh Lattin, a gentle man and humanitarian who cares for the aged in his home, Heritage Elder Care, located in Damascus, Oregon, discusses his House of Love.

Jill Murphy Long: filmmaker, storyteller and brain tumor survivor. On March 28th, 1979, she was 15 years old and delivering The York Dispatch newspaper to her neighborhood of sleepy Penn Oaks South, Pennsylvania, less than 13 miles from the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.  Elizabeth talks with Jill about her tireless pursuit to use story in order to spotlight environmental and societal injustices. To find out more and see how you can get involved: https://www.jmlfilms.com/

Meet the fabulous Starchild, long-term friend of host, Elizabeth. They discuss being motherless daughters, and sharing the bond of becoming motherless daughters at a very young age.

Deon opened the first alkaline hydrolysis facility in the Portland metro area, a natural water-based cremation process, that speeds up the body's natural decomposition after death. The process leaves a significantly smaller carbon footprint on the earth and uses only one-tenth of the energy of flame cremation. 

Kristin Applegate, fondly known as Nurse Apple, is a Hospice Nurse, End-of-Life Death Doula, creator of Applegate Overcrossings, and Urban Chicken Whisperer.

Meet Rob, small town mortician and musician. He shares his life as a country undertaker who has been in the professional for 35 years.

A real estate broker and land developer by trade, Ed has recently developed a green burial ground in Historic Columbian Cemetery in Portland, Oregon.

Listen as Darcy explains her passion for exploring pathways to better dialogue and to help reframe the death narrative both culturally and within the church.

Kenton Johnson, a man of the cloth, and I mean that figuratively and literally as he is a chaplain who wears a few different uniforms. 

Evangelist  Rico Kaplan shares his experience as a street preacher in some very rough neighborhoods - notably in Jamaica  where he spent a considerable amount of time.