Life and Death: Stories about our relationship with death

The Story Collider

Story Collider, Inc.

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Performing Arts, Arts, Science

4.4 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Happy New Year! In this week’s episode, our storytellers ponder the big questions about life and death. Part 1: When Shannon Turner’s high school friend passes away from a rare virus from a monkey, she contemplates her sense of purpose. Part 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. Shannon 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’s OG monthly true, personal storytelling event and has an MFA from Virginia Tech. Read more at StoryMuse.net. Erica Buist is a writer, journalist, lecturer and author of the book This Party’s 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.2	A science story, huh? Is NYU scientists the... I felt a lot. I felt felt I was so...
0:38.3	And I just thought, well...
0:39.3	I figured it out.
0:40.3	It was that golden moment.
0:42.3	Because science was on my side.
0:44.3	Hey, everyone. Hey everyone, welcome to the story clutter, where true personal stories about science help us to discover how weird and wonderful it is to exist in this world and be a human.
1:03.8	I'm your host, Mishayayevsky, and what do you say we ease into 2024 with a lighthearted show on life and death.
1:12.5	I see all those hands, okay?
1:15.1	Thrilled that you're on board. Let's go.
1:17.5	First up is Shannon Turner.
1:19.6	Shannon Turner is a professional storyteller and story coach.
1:22.4	She's also a writer, dreamer, nerd, and the founder and creative director of StoryMuse.
1:27.0	If you've ever found yourself thinking,
1:28.4	what am I doing with my life? Which, let's be honest, who hasn't? You'll love Shannon and her story.
1:34.9	Here we go.
1:50.4	Tonight we've been talking about stories of faith and some people put their faith in science and some people put their faith in religion some people put their faith in Beyonce
1:55.1	that's why I'm wearing silver tonight because she said it was burgo season and therefore we
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