Juno News - Amanda Achtman of the ＂Dying to Meet You＂ project joins Marc Patrone

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00:00:00.000 is the dying to meet you project basically this is a project of cultural renewal to humanize

00:00:06.320 our conversations in canada on topics of suffering death meaning and hope and it was really occasioned

00:00:13.520 by working in politics trying to prevent the expansion of euthanasia on the basis of disability

00:00:20.080 and mental illness when i realized that we don't just have a culture of death in canada

00:00:25.120 we actually have death without culture we've lost the cultural tenor around death and dying

00:00:30.160 all the rituals and traditions and mores that help us know how to do this well and so i started

00:00:36.400 blogging every single day for an entire year about death and dying in a cultural light and

00:00:42.800 that was actually a really enlivening new year's resolution for me and since then it's morphed into

00:00:48.560 this broader cultural initiative where i travel across canada engaging people in conversations

00:00:54.800 workshops, hearing their stories, producing short films about them, and helping to revive

00:01:00.720 our sense of meaning amidst this existential crisis of euthanasia.

Juno News - April 08, 2026