Amanda Achtman of the ＂Dying to Meet You＂ project joins Marc Patrone
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Summary
The Dying To Meet You Project is a project of cultural renewal that aims to humanize our conversations in Canada on topics of suffering, death, meaning, and hope. It s a cultural initiative that travels across the country engaging people in conversations, workshops, and stories about them, and helping to revive our sense of meaning amidst the existential crisis of euthanasia.
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is the dying to meet you project basically this is a project of cultural renewal to humanize
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our conversations in canada on topics of suffering death meaning and hope and it was really occasioned
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by working in politics trying to prevent the expansion of euthanasia on the basis of disability
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and mental illness when i realized that we don't just have a culture of death in canada
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we actually have death without culture we've lost the cultural tenor around death and dying
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all the rituals and traditions and mores that help us know how to do this well and so i started
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blogging every single day for an entire year about death and dying in a cultural light and
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that was actually a really enlivening new year's resolution for me and since then it's morphed into
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this broader cultural initiative where i travel across canada engaging people in conversations
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workshops, hearing their stories, producing short films about them, and helping to revive
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our sense of meaning amidst this existential crisis of euthanasia.