We're Dying Here

In the last episode of the season, join Jane and Micah as we chat it up with Barbara Becker about her new book, Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind. We discuss her near death adventure in a car that got hijacked, the losses she has experienced and for fun we venture into the death of Rasputin and find out a few too many correlations with Vlad Putin. Shhhh. http://barbarabecker.com/ (http://barbarabecker.com/) (includes where to buy the book, a free readers guide, and other helpful resources) Instagram: barbara_becker_author Facebook: @BarbaraBecker.Author Looking to learn more about compassionate caregiving and the 2 Zen monks who trained Barbara? https://zencare.org/ (https://zencare.org/) ------------------------- Care to donate to breast cancer awareness? https://www.breastcancer.org/ (https://www.breastcancer.org/) ____________________ Follow We're Dying Here at https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere (https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere) & https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere (https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere) If you have a moment, please rate, review and/or subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427) For more, visit us at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com) This is Micah's website: https://micahsherman.com/ (https://micahsherman.com) We can't promise you everlasting life, but we can promise a more enjoyable ride while you're here!

Daryl Ray is an Actor, Photographer and Producer who had a groovy near death experience where he was told what needed to be done to save his life, so he woke up and told the doctors and then signed a bunch of papers so they would follow his instructions. Because of that message and his acting on it he's here today! We talk about this experience as well as that of returning to a small southern town and caring for his mother until she passed away. This guy is a total doll and opens his heart and tells us all. Check Daryl out at http://www.imdb.me/darylray (www.imdb.me/darylray) Follow We're Dying Here at https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere (https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere) & https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere (https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere) If you have a moment, please rate, review and/or subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427) For more, visit us at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com) This is Micah's website: https://micahsherman.com/ (https://micahsherman.com) We can't promise you everlasting life, but we can promise a more enjoyable ride while you're here!

Our guest this week is an International Aid Worker recently evacuated from Myanmar and previously a church bus accident avoider. Mr. Matt Pietz joins Jane and Micah for a fun romp through covid, a terrible bus driver encounter, evacuations and how future Matt Pietz on a deathbed makes decisions. Here is a link to donate to https://www.msf.org/ (Medecins Sans Frontieres), a humanitarian medical assistance organization that Matt says always does great work. That website again is at https://www.msf.org/ Follow We're Dying Here at https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere (https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere) & https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere (https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere) If you have a moment, please rate, review and/or subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427) For more, visit us at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com) This is Micah's website: https://micahsherman.com/ (https://micahsherman.com) We can't promise you everlasting life, but we can promise a more enjoyable ride while you're here!

Our guest, Sharon Gentry explains the reasons we should make wills and make our choices about how we want to live, through living wills, clear and legal. The big point here is that it is not so much for you, but a gift to your loved ones to take difficult decisions off their hands. So do it! Follow We're Dying Here at https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere (https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere) & https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere (https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere) If you have a moment, please rate, review and/or subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427) For more, visit us at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com) This is Micah's website: https://micahsherman.com/ (https://micahsherman.com) We can't promise you everlasting life, but we can promise a more enjoyable ride while you're here!

Guest Kathleen McInnis chats it up with Jane and Micah as we discuss the death of her father, how that changes you and what we all hope we are doing with our lives in terms of being of service to others and finding our own path. We also discuss the most foolish things we could do if we were wrongly informed we only had a week to live. Follow We're Dying Here at https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere (https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere) & https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere (https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere) If you have a moment, please rate, review and/or subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427) For more, visit us at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com) This is Micah's website: https://micahsherman.com/ (https://micahsherman.com) We can't promise you everlasting life, but we can promise a more enjoyable ride while you're here!

So in the first episode with Brian we got the deets on what went down when he went down. Now we dive deeper into what it all meant and how his sharing of the experience is both important and moving for him! Follow We're Dying Here at https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere (https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere) & https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere (https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere) If you have a moment, please rate, review and/or subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427) For more, visit us at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com) This is Micah's website: https://micahsherman.com/ (https://micahsherman.com) We can't promise you everlasting life, but we can promise a more enjoyable ride while you're here!

Joining Jane and Micah on the pod this week is none other than David Koechner. You might know David as the sportscaster Champ Kind in Anchorman or the traveling salesman Todd Packer from the Office or from one of his other 200 IMDb credits. However you know him, you haven't heard him like this before. We talk with David about moving from Catholicism to skepticism, letting his children choose their own internal operating system and how to not be a sociopath. Enjoy! You can find Koechner at https://twitter.com/davidkoechner (https://twitter.com/davidkoechner) and https://www.instagram.com/davidkoechner (https://www.instagram.com/davidkoechner). And follow us at https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere (https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere) & https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere (https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere). If you have a moment, please rate, review and/or subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427). And visit https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com) to send us a message. This is Micah's website: https://micahsherman.com/ (https://micahsherman.com). We can't promise you everlasting life, but we can promise a more enjoyable ride while you're here!

It's Fathers' Day 2018. One minute, Brian is playing in a friendly, organized game of baseball and the next thing he remembers is losing consciousness, detaching from his body and arriving in front of a door with an entity communicating, “You're done,” to him. What could it all mean? Jane and Micah are on the case! Follow We're Dying Here at https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere (https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere) & https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere (https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere) If you have a moment, please rate, review and/or subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427) For more, visit us at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com) This is Micah's website: https://micahsherman.com/ (https://micahsherman.com) We can't promise you everlasting life, but we can promise a more enjoyable ride while you're here!

Joining Jane & Micah on the pod this week is none other than Jane's high school classmate and Saturday Night Live vet, Cheri Oteri! We talk reincarnation, growing up Catholic, and Micah's crush on Cheri when he was in high school. Enjoy! Follow Cheri at https://twitter.com/cherioteri (https://twitter.com/cherioteri) & https://www.facebook.com/CheriOteri (https://www.facebook.com/CheriOteri) And follow We're Dying Here at https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere (https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere) & https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere (https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere) If you have a moment, please rate, review and/or subscribe to We're Dying Here on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427) For more, visit us at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com) We can't promise you everlasting life, but we can promise a more enjoyable ride while you're here!

Chef Erica has been referred to as the “Jon Stewart of food” and has a web series called Funny People Making Food that's like a dash of “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” with a pinch of “Dinner for Five.” And Micah is in the most recent episode featuring friend of the pod Mia Jackson! Check out Micah's episode of Funny People Making Food: https://youtu.be/MiVcsD-aWNs (https://youtu.be/MiVcsD-aWNs) Follow Funny People Making Food at https://www.facebook.com/FunnyPeopleMakingFood (https://www.facebook.com/FunnyPeopleMakingFood) & https://www.instagram.com/funnypeoplemakingfood (https://www.instagram.com/funnypeoplemakingfood) And follow We're Dying Here at https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere (https://www.facebook.com/weredyinghere) & https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere (https://www.instagram.com/weredyinghere) too For more, visit us at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com) And if you have a moment, please rate, review and subscribe to We're Dying Here on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/were-dying-here/id1535494427) We can't promise you everlasting life, but we can promise a more enjoyable ride while you're here! Thanks for listening.

Join Jane and Micah and our guest Divya Anantharaman, owner of Gotham Taxidermy! We talk all things death and dying and how taxidermy has given Divya a greater appreciation for life. We also chat about Taxidermying Micah but apparently it's very expensive. What about a reality show for competitive Taxidermy? It could happen! Visit Divya at Gotham Taxidermy! http://gothamtaxidermy.com/ (http://gothamtaxidermy.com)

Come listen to Jane and Micah chat with Lori Gunty Becker, a teacher and old friend of Jane's. They met in college and have been friends since. They discuss Mushroom trips, and a near death experience of a colonoscopy. Lori talks about her father, the late Borscht Belt Comic Morty Gunty, hanging around backstage with Cher's drag queens while her father performed and the difficulty of losing her father so young.

Join Jane and Micah on this week's episode with guest Kory Batschke! Kory grew up in a flower shop and has been around the funeral industry his entire life. This led him to work as a funeral associate who is currently in training at the Wayne State University Mortuary Science Program to become a certified funeral director. He must love the program because he says that, after he dies, he wants to donate his body back to the school! We find out everything that a mortician at a family-owned funeral home is responsible for 24/7 and the best and worst phrases to use at a funeral. The undeeeeertaaaaaaker!

Join Jane and Micah as we chat with our first guest under 10 years old. Four years younger than 10. It's 6 year old Sara and her mother Jessica. Sara saw the movie Soul, has lost a great grandmother and family cat. We talk about Soul, Tom and Jerry, Ancestors, and she has questions!

THE Reverend Susie Webster is a minister and hospice spiritual advisor. We talk about Jane's fear, the privilege of doing hospice work and all the different things you can and or should not covet! Follow us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. You can find our more at https://www.weredyinghere.com

Hilary Sheaves is a Crime Scene Investigator who deals with death pretty regularly! We talk about very alive bodies, like athletes, to very not alive bodies, like dead people. We also have a very fun little conversation about hair, single shoes on the side of the road and eating ribs. I'm not kidding. Check Hilary out on Instagram at pitmama15 or at her Etsy shop, Peace Love & Llamas Subscribe, rate & FOLLOW us here or at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com).

Join us and our guest Phil Rosenthal! We talk about the irony of jumping from a moving vehicle, Groucho Marx's final words, his most impressive achievements, marrying Monica, and being Dad to Ben and Lily. Phil is a Showrunner, Writer and Creator who has been thinking more about death recently! Check them out on Netflix on his show Somebody Feed Phil You can also watch his show Everybody Loves Raymond on any tv at any time. Subscribe, rate & review us here or at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com)

Dave is a stand-up comic who is in the midst of grieving the recent loss of his father.  We talk about how stunted we are as a society in dealing with death, how we can do better, and what it means to be a road dog.  Check him out http://www.yatescomedy.com (www.yatescomedy.com) Subscribe, rate & review us here or at https://www.weredyinghere.com (https://www.weredyinghere.com)

Sam is a student, a childhood cancer survivor and Jane's eldest. We talk about Anxiety, The frivolity of bucket lists and the touch of cancer he had as a 5 year old. Subscribe, rate & review us here or at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com).

This week our guest on the podcast is Dr. Rich Krueger, a Neonatologist and Neuroscientist who cares for the highest risk babies out there!  We talk about his work with infants in neonatal intensive care units, how he has time for a music career and the worst ways to die! To learn more about Rich go to  http://www.richkrueger.com/ (http://www.richkrueger.com) and  http://www.rockinkmusic.com/ (http://www.rockinkmusic.com) Grab the episode at Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods.  Subscribe, rate & review us here or at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com).  @richkruger  @micahsherman  @janebaker  https://app.metigy.com/jane-baker/jane-baker/# (#deathanddying) 

LeMar McLean is a Comedian, Writer and the host of the Brothers from Another Mother podcast. We talk about Booby Traps, Holding the hand of Stevie Nicks and 5 Star Restaurants for a month! Check them out at http://www.lemarmclean.com Subscribe, rate & review us here or at https://www.weredyinghere.com/ (https://www.weredyinghere.com).

Robin Garrett is a long time friend and mentor to Jane. She is a new friend of Micah's. She is a smarty pants that has retired from professing and nursing both! Enjoy! Near death experience, check. REM sleep aficionado, check. Woman who thinks her kids should bury her near a headstone she likes but not buy one for her, check! Thanks for listening folks!

Greg Kotis is the author of many plays and musicals including Yeast Nation (Book/Lyrics), The Truth About Santa, Pig Farm, Eat the Taste, Urinetown (Book/Lyrics, for which he won an Obie Award and two Tony Awards), and Jobey and Katherine. His work has been produced and developed in theaters across the country and around the world, including Actors Theatre of Louisville, American Conservatory Theater, American Theater Company, Henry Miller's Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Stage and Film, Perseverance Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, Soho Rep, South Coast Repertory, and The Old Globe, among others. Mr. Kotis is a member of the Neo-Futurists, the Cardiff Giant Theater Company, ASCAP, and the Dramatists Guild. He grew up in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, and now lives in Brooklyn with his wife Ayun Halliday, his daughter India, and his son Milo.

Bethany Van Delft's “hip & grounded, laid back delivery” has earned her the honor of performing at cool ass festivals like J4L and opening for comedy faves like Reggie Watts, Ronnie Chiang and Maria Bamford. She was named “Best Comic” by Boston Magazine in 2019 & 2020, her debut comedy album “Im Not a Llama” dropped Dec 2019 to good reviews and an impressive number of minutes at #2 on the iTunes charts. In the Before Times she regularly hosted The Moth live events and has a story included in The Moth book “All These Wonders”. She co-hosts the Nova PBS series PARENTALOGIC, hosts the kids news podcast “The Ten News”, has a weekly IG show ARTISANAL COMEDY, and somehow keeps her kids and husband alive, and not suuuper unhappy. She also bakes pretty well.  

Simone Norman is a comedian, actor, and writer based in Brooklyn. She's performed stand up, sketch, and improv in venues and festivals across New York City, and has appeared in independent films, web series, and national commercial campaigns. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Teen Vogue, ELLE, and Reductress. You can catch her as Eleanor Palmer on the new show from Executive Producer Stephen Colbert, "Tooning Out The News," now streaming on CBS: All Access. 

Join Jane and Micah as we do a deep dive into the medical world and experiences of our guest Dr. Jeremy Morrison. Jeremy is my doctor. He went to medical school as an adult, so he had met death before anatomy class. He is happy, married, and has two children. He has never killed anyone directly or been killed himself. This is his first time appearing on a podcast - and the last, if we have anything to say about it.

Join Jane Baker and Micah Sherman as we talk death, dying and murder with Mark Beltzman. Mark Beltzman wears a bunch of hats as an ACTOR - TEACHER- DIRECTOR - WRITER TUBAPLAYER and PRIVATE ACTING COACH He is the Co-Founder of Maui Improv in 2014 and also one of the founding members of Improv Olympic in Chicago where he worked with the legendary group, Barons Barracudas. Mark has worked and directed at the famed Second City in Chicago.  find out all about Mark at http://www.Markbeltzman.com

Find out why Larry David causes stress. If Josh would dominate over a group of Russian hijackers and other fun death topics. Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City, where he currently lives and works as a writer and producer for Desus & Mero on Showtime. Previously, he spent five years at Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, first as a web producer and then as a staff writer where he earned four Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three WGA Awards. In 2016, Josh made his late night standup debut on Conan (TBS), and he has also performed on Late Night With Seth Meyers (NBC) and The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS).

Myq Kaplan is a comedian named Myq Kaplan. He is a 2010 Last Comic Standing Finalist and has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show, Louie, and many other places that you might not care about. His CD, Vegan Mind Meld, was one of iTunes top ten best-selling comedy albums. We had a great time chatting all things death and dying with my new BFF Myq Kaplan! Go hang out with him at: http://myqkaplan.com (http://myqkaplan.com)

Joe List began his comedy career in Boston, Massachusetts in 2000 just weeks after graduating from high school. Since that time he has been featured on The Late Show with David Letterman as well as multiple appearances on Conan. He's featured in Season 2 of The Netflix Series “The Stand Ups”. In 2015 List was a finalist on NBC's Last Comic Standing and had his own Half Hour comedy special on Comedy Central. His albums 'So Far No Good' and 'Are You Mad at Me?' can be heard regularly on Sirius Radio. List is also the co-host of his own popular weekly podcast 'Tuesdays with Stories'. When not headlining comedy clubs all over North America, List is a regular at the Comedy Cellar in New York City. Find out more about Joe at https://www.comedianjoelist.com

Jane and Micah ask all the good questions of Medium, Lisa Swick. What are we doing here, what's "the other side," like and how many times are we going to do this thing called life? Get all the answers, kinda. Lisa Swick was born with abilities, and in recent years has worked to understand and develop them. She prefers to think of herself as a ‘comedium'…a comedian as well as a medium! A continual student or the paranormal Lisa is involved with the paranormal community. When not giving Jane the creeps with her abilities she works in healthcare and is finishing a Bachelor of Science degree at Champlain College, with plans to attend a physician associate graduate program after graduation. Lisa enjoys writing, fitness, and playing with her Irish Jack Russell Terrier. If you'd like to contact Lisa for a reading you can reach her at dowd.lisa@gmail.com or on Instagram @lisamichelledowd

Join us as we chat it up with Mia Jackson. Mia was brought up in the south as a Southern Baptist! That makes her less afraid, or more afraid? We're still not sure. But a good time is had by all except for the gentleman who was our "Death of the Week." He did not have a good time! To revel in even more Mia Jackson head over to miajackson.com To ask us questions that we will answer on the podcast write us at weredyinhere@gmail.com

Micah Sherman and Jane Baker break down the anxiety and fear that apparently only Jane has about dying. Micah is being so jerky. come see us on our facebook page, we're dying here or at www.dyinghere.com or even email us at weredyinhere@gmail.com, we'd love to hear your questions.

Did Monica play a vending machine in a high school play? Yes, yes she did. Did Jane want that part? Of course. Have they remained friends despite that defeating blow? Yep. Join Micah and Jane as we chat it up with the most gracious and fun Monica Louise Catherine Horan Rosenthal!

Well, Jane is not comfortable with this discussion at all. Micah is having the time of his life! Join us for a deep dive with Stephanie! You can also find Stephanie on TikTok as 1032queen_embalmer Also, Stephanie is a proud advocate against bullying and If you are so inclined please contribute to and follow Keegan's Krew. You can find them on tiktok at @keeganskrew on FB at Keegan's Krew Anti-Bullying Project and on Instagram at keeganskrew11

Stephanie was our first Bonus Episode guest and stayed on to do a regular jaunty episode for your listening pleasure. You can find her on Tiktok at @1032queen_embalmer Also, Stephanie is a proud advocate against bullying and If you are so inclined please contribute to and follow Keegan's Krew. You can find them on tiktok at @keeganskrew on FB at Keegan's Krew Anti-Bullying Project and on Instagram at keeganskrew11

Maria And Micah. Well well well, what a fun time we had. Maria is a hoot. That's what the cool kids call a riot! We had too much fun for our own good! Listen and let us know what you are thinking about these days!

Our guest is Holden McNeely and if you think he hasn't had a near death experience you are wrongo! He loves Twitch, does not love car accidents or hydroplaning. So much controversial cat talk it's hard to describe. Jane's a cool aunt, Micah has not will and believes there will be no laughing in heaven. If it exists.

Jim Carrey is a genius in Kidding. Lollygagging is definitely not what Micah thinks it is! Tiktok is addictive. Definitely don't shoot cactus ya dummy. Vote vote vote.

Is Shane Mauss our guest this week? YES! Is he fun and talking about near death experiences? Also yes! Stop jinxing civil war battles! Outlive our competitors. What happened to Limbo? We'll tell ya!

Micah is heroic, Micah is not heroic. Someone needs to reconsider an engagement. Dying to be on stage vs dying on stage. Epic plans for Jane and Micah's funerals. Don't miss them.

Still worried, in fact Micah is exacerbating things. We talk about open weeping, Hiram Valandingham, great lawyers and so much more.

Jane and Micah are talking some more, it's not getting any easier. We are taking about death until Jane is no longer deathly afraid of death! There's a death of the week, and obit of the week, some personal questions, some practical issues and of course a quiz. Let us know how much you want us to stop talking about all this! Jane and Micah

We're dying HerePremiere episode. Don't miss the fun when Jane and Micah stake our their opposite corners in this show that isn't afraid to be afraid of death but still wants to talk about it.