Life and Death: Stories about our relationship with death
b'Happy New Year! In this week\\u2019s episode, our storytellers ponder the big questions about life and death.\\nPart 1: When Shannon Turner\\u2019s high school friend passes away from a rare virus from a monkey, she contemplates her sense of purpose.\\nPart 2: After a traumatizing experience with a dead body leaves journalist Erica Buist agoraphobic, she embarks on a journey to understand how other cultures handle death in hopes of healing.\\nShannon M. Turner is a professional storyteller and story coach, as well as a writer, dreamer, and nerd. She is the Founder/Creative Director of StoryMuse, offers storytelling techniques as a tool for personal discernment, team building, and community development in effort to cultivate a world where all stories are heard and honored. She is the producer of Carapace, Atlanta\\u2019s OG monthly true, personal storytelling event and has an MFA from Virginia Tech. Read more at StoryMuse.net. \\nErica Buist is a writer, journalist, lecturer and author of the book This Party\\u2019s Dead. Between writing plays, audio drama and short films for Stockroom Theatre Company and managing the social media for literary nonprofit Tupelo Press, she is slowly writing her first novel.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'