441 – SA Death Festival Is The Key To Living Well
India Wallace and Catherine Ooi of Pure Land Home Hospice take Steve on a wide-ranging wander through death anxiety, heavens, hells and unfinished business ahead of the third SA Death Festival, before Steve Davis and The Virtualosos close with a brand-new Hamlet-inspired song, “Cowards of Us All”. A week before the third SA Death Festival at Centennial Park, Steve sits down with India Wallace and Catherine Ooi to ask what we’re really afraid of: being dead, or the business of dying? The answer reaches from a hospice companion who helped a woman set down a lifelong secret to the surprising power of a family saying, “You can leave. We’ll be okay.” There is no SA Drink of the Week this episode. The Musical Pilgrimage is a world premiere: “Cowards of Us All” by Steve Davis and The Virtualosos, inspired by Andrew Scott’s Almeida Theatre take on Hamlet’s soliloquy, a diagnosis
