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/ &...

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...

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 Medecins Sans Frontieres , a humanitarian medical assistance organization t...

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.insta...

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.instagram.com/weredyinghere If you have a moment, please rate, review and/or subscribe to u...

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...

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  &...

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://www.facebook.com/CheriOteri And follow We’re Dying Here at  ht...

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 Follow Funny People Mak...

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

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 fa...

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 d...

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...

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...

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 www.yatescomedy.com Subscribe, rate & review us here or at 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 .

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  and  http://www.rockinkmusic.com Grab the...

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 .

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 Lo...

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...

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...

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 anythin...