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How to Live to 100 (or Die Trying) · February 9 · 25 min

A Good Death

It is inevitable. Our fear of it can make it worse. Join us for an animated conversation on dying with two unlikely sources. Michael Brooke, a kid from Thornhill who ended up in the '90s LA skateboarding scene before a career in funeral homes and Ondi Timoner, who twice won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film festival and in 2022, she released her most personal film, called Last Flight Home, about the extraordinary life and death of her father. GUESTS: Michael Brooke, skateboarder and founder of Concrete Wave. Ondi Timoner, award-winning filmmaker whose documentary on her father's death changed laws for medical assistance in dying.

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It is inevitable. Our fear of it can make it worse. Join us for an animated conversation on dying with two unlikely sources. Michael Brooke, a kid from Thornhill who ended up in the '90s LA skateboarding scene before a career in funeral homes and Ondi Timoner, who twice won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film festival and in 2022, she released her most personal film, called Last Flight Home, about the extraordinary life and death of her father.

GUESTS: Michael Brooke, skateboarder and founder of Concrete Wave. Ondi Timoner, award-winning filmmaker whose documentary on her father's death changed laws for medical assistance in dying.