Welcome to Commune, a global wellness community and online course platform,

featuring some of the world's greatest teachers. We are on a mission to inspire, heal,

pass down wisdom, and bring the world closer together. This is the Commune podcast where each week we explore the ideas and practices that help us live this healthy,

connected, and purpose-filled life.

In addition to our courses on yoga, meditation, and personal development,

Commune also offers an array of social impact courses, including unwinding

prejudice, redefining leadership, and organize a march. If you're interested in enrolling in any of

these course offerings for free, please email me at Jeff Kay at OneCommune.com. Right now, I think we can all benefit from learning and growing in order to better

serve our communities. So last week, Skyler's mom, my mother-in-law, Anne Grant, came to visit us in Topanga.

Now, Anne is unique. At first blush, she'd peg her as an old hippie,

a quasi-nudest northern Californian organic gardener who collects her own poop. All of that is true.

But that's too simple of a read. Anne grew up on a proper ranch, calling roosters, butchering pigs, re-roofing barns, and laying foundations.

And at 76, she still carries that grit with her.

She's a voracious reader, intellectual, but not a feat.

She and her husband, Jack, Skyler's dad, have lived on the

same property for nearly 50 years with no central heating, limited plumbing and electricity,

a rotary phone, and no internet. Now, Anne and I have a quirky and warm relationship, one that belies the stereotypical mother-in-law, son-in-law, rapport.

And today on the show, we discuss something typically taboo, death, or more specifically dying well.

Anne is honest and sanguine about how she wants to die with dignity.

And we talk about that today.

My name is Jeff Krasno, and welcome to Commune.

Music I am Jeff's mother-in-law, my daughter, is married to Jeff. So, that's

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