A Question of Death

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Podcast exploring & improving our relationship with death through respectful enquiry. Learning what death can tell us about living via conversations with those who work with the dead & grieving as well as examining death in folklore, history, art & food.

A small round fluffy thing with pointed ears, a haggis pudding in its wild state 😋
Cream text on grey background:There is absolutely no reason to commit to lots of resolutions and changes in the dark of the year. It is just as valid to remain wintering and ask yourself: What nourishes my soul? What dreams do I want keep close? How do I want to feel as I step out into this new year?
Video is a still photo with audio. The still photo is of dusky pink roses with the podcast logo in the middle in white text: a question of death
Background image: A snippet of a French manuscript from 1512/1514, showing a drawing of Pythagoras turning his face away from fava beans in revulsion. The foreground text reads The Beans of Death From Equations to A Silent Supper via Tiny Almond Biscuits.
Funeral Cookbooks & Recipe Gravestones Part 2 - Food and Death Series AQUESTIONOFDEATH.SUBSTACK.COM in white text across a background of white cloth with 5 unpeeled parsnips lying on it
Gold square with 3 conical beehives in different colours, each with a stream of bees entering - taken from a mediaeval manuscript. The text in white on top says Bees, death & honey, Part 1 - Food & Death Series
A painting in the background of a woman dressed as the personification of death in black with wings in a snowy graveyard. With white text in the foreground reading Between Bones and the Harvest
Square picture with dark painting of Prosperpine as background. In the foreground in white text it says Prosperpine and the Fruit of Desth - a little post equinox reading
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Text against a background of a painting featuring a skeleton in a black cloak tending a garden. The text says The Garden of Death or another side of death via the art of Hugo Simberg
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"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others." Thucydides - cream text on slate grey background
Pythagoras in Ancient Greek attire standing with his hands up against a small growth of broad beans
“Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.” CS Lewis cream text grey background
A female personification of Death, dressed in black, with black wings. She is standing over an open grave containing an old gravedigger with a spade. The graveyard surrounding them is covered in snow with many headstones in the background.
An indoor space full of wooden benches with three dressed alive skeletons wearing black cloaks tending various different plants. These images of death are of an open and compassionate gardener rather than a dark and foreboding presence, hidden in a cowl.
A coloured botanical drawing of the different parts of a rosemary plant in a white background
Slate grey with cream text “Death isn’t cruel, merely terribly, terribly good at his job” - Sourcery by Terry Pratchett