endlich.sein

a podcast for more life-death-balance in everyday life, which makes the hushed-up finiteness heard. thoughts, stories, facts and talks about death, honest, direct and new. me, viviana leida leonhardt, put death in context

@endlich.sein

i would like to continue to deal with the topic in the long term. i hope that endlich.sein will be able to expand into other languages in the future through cooperation beyond the language and national borders. other cultural perspectives can be an additional chance for possible further developments. 

all 3 episodes and their parts can also be listened to here

in the first episode I put the finite into a larger context and give you an insight into the history of death. show its past and discuss its present position in our society. and i'll tell you more about my idea, this podcast, being finite.

the story of death is not over yet and continues in this second part of the first episode. for what about the finiteness today and tomorrow? visible, invisible or new, the "new death"?

what exactly is a hospice? information, experiences and stories from people who make the “hospiz aargau” association what it is. dieter hermann, the managing director talks about the hospice system and about dignified dying until the end. maria, who has worked as a companion for 30 years, talks about her encounters with death under a rosebush or during a glacé coupe. 

christina shares her personal story, which her husband has planned for her. she now works as a volunteer in the inpatient department of palliative care and talks about the island that became the hospice for her

information and stories about the third pillar of the association. the grief counsellor, marianne talks about her professional and private experiences. she talks about love, death, grief but also about joy.

subconsciously, consciously, everyday, overcome by, vocationally, learning, searching... the third episode of endlich.sein traces the finiteness in everyday life, step by step. the finiteness in its soft skin up to its superiority. each episode will approach the finiteness in its intensity. the first part episode slowly traces the finite in its subconscious way.

the subconscious finiteness becomes more and more a commonplace. a yoghurt can stimulate a morning debate about life and death. but dealing with death is quite different depending on the culture. milena moser reads from her book "the beautiful life of the dead" and talks about the carefree handling of death in mexican culture. and I wonder where in our society the active confrontation with finiteness in everyday life begins.

the finiteness can tear us out of our everyday life all of a sudden, can come over us for a short or long time. the narration of two personal stories shows this overwhelming feeling of finiteness in everyday life and how it changes a life. it also raises the question of how i approach a person who has suffered a loss, how do I deal with it? the finiteness as memory as an inner process that can also become a conscious part of life is the theme of this episode.  

the finiteness can be lived consciously and be a part of the professional everyday life, as it is in the parish, care and burial. three young people talk about their profession with the finite, their tasks and experiences and how they cultivate, mediate and honour the finite.

the finiteness can also be consciously sought, it can be learned. a variety of workshops and events make this possible, like "death over dinners", "the school of death" or "living funerals". the most important aspect is that one learns to die not only for oneself, but also for others. the "last Help course" for example brings this knowledge closer.

the finiteness is subconsciously always there and also in a larger dimension, in the we as a part of society. our own finiteness is always in relation to that of others, the collective finiteness. exactly this should be seen as a social task, that we as a caring community in the collective deal with our common finiteness and talk about it.

july 20

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