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 -- Conscious Discussions Talk Radio --   Sign up via itunes for the Conscious Discussions Radio show: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id262138144   Gail Rubin is here today to share how each of us can green our end of life planning. Join us to learn about inspirational tools to pre-plan a healing and meaningful funeral or memorial service. Gail is a speaker, author of two books, a columnist at the Tribune , and member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling , and also the International Cemetery Cremation and Funeral Association.  Join us live (10-11 AM Pacific) and drop in the chat room - or access the archive of today's show at your convenience:     http://www.blogtalkradio.com/consciousdiscussions/2012/06/07/plan-for-a-green-funeral   Find Dave and Lillian Brummet, excerpts from their books, information about their radio program, newsletter, blog, and more at: www.brummet.ca * ...

 -- Green End-of-Life Planning -- Caskets - Environment Friendly Funeral By Linda W Brunner  You are forced to make lots of stressful and sometimes very expensive steps throughout a time period of serious psychological hardship that makes these already challenging steps even more complicated. Looking for caskets, choosing a spot for the service, purchasing a burial plot, arranging a wake or memorial service, what dress to bury your beloved in etc. are just a few of the options you will be required to make during this traumatic time. These strategies have created a lot of helpful suggestions to help you in making sure that the funeral you are managing is eco-friendly. There are several possible choices you can make to make sure that a funeral is beneficial to our environment; choices for instance the casket, the embalming, tombstone or marker, and many more. To start with, you need to consider what to do with the departed body. There are num...

-- This Week - Leaving a Legacy as a Final Act -- Tuesday - Feb 2nd: Did you know that over one million people in the world die by suicide every year leaving millions more bereft? The partners, children, parents, siblings, friends, colleagues and caregivers left behind are often plagued by a corrosive sense of guilt and shame. And the stigma associated with suicide commonly causes survivors to hide the truth and suppress their anguish. Harvard psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport, author of the memoir In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother’s Suicide helps us understand suicide and the way it affects others. We will learn how to identify depression, and how to talk as a family about the tragedy. Discover language you can use to help your children deal with tragedies like this. Our featured guest on Tuesday's Conscious Discussions episode was Nancy Rappaport who shared information on Surviving Suicide . Thursday - Feb 4th: A recent AARP poll asked: Which ty...