Seeing Death Clearly

About Seeing Death Clearly

Seeing Death Clearly is a show that challenges you to think about your beliefs about death, dying, grief, and living life. I am your host, Jill McClennen, a death doula and end-of-life coach. As a death doula, I found through first-hand experience that the more I came to terms with my thoughts and feelings about death and dying, the more present I became in my everyday life and I hope to share that with you too, how you can live a better life by having a healthier relationship with death and dying. Each episode features a guest who shares their beliefs and stories about death and dying. These are honest conversations about a topic most of us avoided talking about our entire lives. I am on a mission to change that, one conversation at a time.

Publisher

Jill McClennen

Category

education · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Dec 2022

Latest episode

11 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

183 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Oct 2026

   A Death Doula's Perspective on Grief with Nikki Smith aka Nikki the Death Doula

   Send us Fan Mail Grief isn't just something we experience when someone dies. It can show up during major life changes, the end of relationships, aging, and losses we may not even recognize as grief. Learning to acknowledge these experiences can help us better understand our emotions and find ways to move through them. In this episode of Seeing Death Clearly, host Jill McClennen, a death doula and funeral celebrant, talks with Nikki Smith, also known as Nikki the Death Doula, a death doula and...

2. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Caregiving Is an Amateur Business with Sarah Vosburgh

   Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Seeing Death Clearly, Sarah Vosburg shares the complicated reality of caregiving, grief, memory care, and learning to give herself grace for decisions made during an incredibly difficult time. Caring for a parent with dementia can mean making difficult choices without knowing whether there is a “right” answer. Host Jill McClennen, a death doula and funeral celebrant, talks with Sarah, a retired school psychologist and author of Who Will Name the Bees? Sar...

3. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Bringing Dying Back Into the Community with Hannah Fowler

   Send us Fan Mail What could end-of-life care look like if caring for people who are dying became more of a community responsibility? In this episode, Jill talks with nurse Hannah Fowler about small, community-based homes for people at the end of life and the role these spaces can play for people who may not have family, caregivers, or a safe place to die. Hannah shares how her work in nursing and hospice eventually brought her to the Center for Conscious Living & Dying in Asheville, n...

Who has been a guest on Seeing Death Clearly

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Christabeth Ingold
• Deborah Charman
• Brian Wardale
• Daryl McCullough
• Caroline Fenelius-Carpenter

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

14 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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