The workbook "Exit Interview" is available for
sale on Lulu. Click here. (March 2024)
THANKS TO
My husband, Allen Moulton, R.N., M.S., M.S.N. See his bio in "About us." He died August 2023.
Thanks to Linda Cannon Huffman, my good friend and also a death doula, for all her help with this book, and for being my friend Julianne's death doula.
The "Beta Testers" group for feedback and fun in helping create this work and being part of our own “Death Prep Group.” We met regularly in 2016 and 2017. These are: Marilyn, Gerette, Mara, Louise.
Thanks to Dr. Laura McCray for her attention to this project, and feedback.
The Death Café organization.
Shinzen Young, my meditation teacher. Because he gave me a solid foundation and confidence in my own meditation practice, I was able to “turn toward” my discomfort, discovering strength I didn't know I had. https://www.shinzen.org/
Thanks in memorium
Donna Stillman, my
aunt who read every word of this project before she died,
encouraged me, and taught me about forgiveness. She was calm
and kind, a true Christian of faith and goodwill, and I am
forever grateful.
Julianne Holland – Here is a video my wonderful friend Julianne made about 2 months before she died of cancer in 2016. Julianne was my dharma sister and best friend, and I was with her every step of the way as best as I could be. She was a model, fluent in 4 languages and a substance abuse counselor. She chronicled her experiences and discoveries while searching for an alternative cure to cancer in hopes that someone may pick up where she left off. It's been a while since she died, and I hope she doesn't mind, but I found some modeling photos of her, how gorgeous! What a special person. https://www.bellazon.com/main/topic/91822-julianne-holland/
Barbara Molloy passed
in 2015. She was as a printmaker, an animal communicator,
teacher, and dynamic woman! Barbara and I shared a
fascination for monkeys and apes and human and animal
behaviors. Barbara had stage IV cancer, and planned her death
down to the last detail. She had the most fabulous funeral I
ever attended and was an inspiration for my death planning and
Death Cafe participation. Her spiritual group of
modern-day Druids know how to put on a service. Click here for Basement Medicine article.
Bradley Fox Click here for Essay by Sam Thurston.
Bradley Fox passed suddenly in 2010. Bradley was my painting
partner and for 3 years we hosted the East Johnson Plein Air
Club together. He died unexpectedly at age 51. The week
before he died, we met up in an old cemetery in Johnson, and
we painted and drew gravestones. We talked about Project
Runway (as usual), design principals and aesthetics, and we
talked about death, too, a lot, that day. Perhaps at some
level we knew this was our last meeting? I don’t know.
Marcie Vallette