#1315 Samantha Waite: Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Death

Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Samantha White. She's a psychotherapist and the founder of Taboo Education and independent business based in Perth, Western Australia, dedicated to improving how medical professionals approach deaf, dying, and end of life care. She also has a YouTube channel with the same name, Taboo Education Let's Talk Deaf. And today we're going to talk about uh deaf and l and deaf literacy. So Samantha, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to have you and I Really love your channel, so it's uh great to have you here. Alright, Gado, lovely to be here.

Okay, great. So uh let me start with more of a personal question, I guess. What got you interested in topics related to death? Uh well I've always been interested in what society deems as taboo and and not to talk about and and things like that. Um, I guess as a kid I wasn't allowed to ask anything about death. That was something that our family would Never talk about that sort of stuff. Um, and as I got older I went into a different career and then you know, I started helping out with my aging grandmother who was obviously getting on age and needed help, and I started seeing how frightened everyone around seemed to be about death, whether it be, you know, even the nursing staff that were around.

families of other patients that were around and that kind of annoyed me in a lot of ways. Um Not their not their feelings about it so much, but the fact that we should know this and we did up to a you know, up to a few decades ago, we were okay with it. Um so that's probably where that came from. It's more I like to make other people feel uncomfortable. while trying to get them back to comfort on a very on various topics. So that's sort of where that started out. And then COVID came around and it was the perfect time to make a change while everyone was still thinking about it. And it was very fresh in everyone's head.

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