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.

Podcasting since 2022 • 161 episodes

Seeing Death Clearly

Latest Episodes

Grief, Fatherhood, and Breaking the Silence Around Death with Matt Fogelson

Death doula and funeral celebrant Jill McClennen speaks with Matt Fogelson about growing up in 1980s Manhattan, then losing his workaholic father to lung cancer when Matt was 19 and his father was 46. Matt describes carrying unspoken grief for ...

May 04, 2026 • Episode 158 • 45:37

Life Forest Tree Burial Cemetery with Mel Bennett

Death doula and funeral celebrant Jill McClennen interviews Mel Bennett, founder of Life Forest in New Hampshire, a nonprofit cemetery and public arboretum where human and pet cremated remains are buried with newly planted trees. After caring f...

April 26, 2026 • Episode 157 • 56:20

Grief, Impermanence, and End-of-Life Planning with Jermaine Ee

Death doula and funeral celebrant Jill McClennen hosts Jermaine on Seeing Death Clearly to explore how talking about death can lead to more conscious living. Jermaine shares how a conversation revealed his mother did not understand ...

April 19, 2026 • Episode 156 • 1:04:38

Breast Cancer, Medical Choice, Informed Consent with Joy Jolie

Death doula and funeral celebrant Jill McClennan hosts a conversation with Joy Jolie about how repeated loss, grief, and serious illness shaped Joy’s views on dying, healing, and end-of-life planning. Joy describes multiple breast c...

April 05, 2026 • Episode 155 • 55:58

Pet Loss Grief with a Pet Death Doula Jessica LeBeau-Richman

Host Jill McClennen, a death doula and funeral celebrant, talks with Jessica LeBeau-Richman, a South Jersey pet death doula, about the often overlooked grief of losing an animal and how people can stay connected through ritual, keepsakes, an...

March 29, 2026 • Episode 154 • 39:40

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