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Acceptance of Death and Reclaiming Traditional Wisdom

April 22, 2021 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

With gratitude to Gary Wederspahn of Final Exit Network for contributing this article (Editor’s note: The following is by Gary Wederspahn, FEN board member and author of Intercultural Services: A Worldwide Guide and Sourcebook and many articles on cross-cultural communications and relations. Gary served as Peace Corps Director in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Ecuador. He has lived and […]

Suicide and The Bible

April 21, 2021 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

Many thanks to Kevin Bradley of Final Exit Network for contributing this article. There is nothing in the Hebrew or Christian scriptures – which most Christians refer to as the Old Testament and New Testament – that explicitly says suicide is wrong. The biblical sources tell of seven people who had a hand in their […]

How We Learn About Death – Part 2

March 12, 2021 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

How We Learn About Death – Part Two Excerpted from Embracing Death: A New Look at Grief, Gratitude and God By Terri Daniel   We’ve all heard the cliché, “nobody’s ever come back from death to tell us about it, so there’s no proof that the soul lives on.” But that’s not true. Countless people […]

How We Learn About Death – Part 1

March 11, 2021 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

How We Learn About Death – Part 1 Excerpted from Embracing Death: A New Look at Grief, Gratitude and God by Terri Daniel   The way we perceive death is a choice. When my 10 year-old son Danny was diagnosed with a degenerative illness that would end his life sometime within the next 10 years, […]

Death Has Many Names

February 23, 2021 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

This article is from the New York Times, Feb. 14, 2021 By George Yancy Photo Credit…Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times This month’s conversation in our series exploring religion and death is with Jacob Kehinde Olupona, a professor of African religious traditions at Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of “City of […]

Bereavement and the Buddhist Bardo

December 27, 2020 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

I shared this article by Pema Khandro Rinpoche  in the January 2021 issue of our newsletter, The Afterlife Advocate, and want to also post it here, because it’s one of the best pieces on death and grief that I’ve ever seen: Breaking Open in the Bardo

The Ego’s Desire for Deathlessness

September 21, 2020 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

The Ego’s Desire for Deathlessness I just watched a movie on Netflix called HOPE FROZEN, about a family in Thailand whose two year-old daughter died of brain cancer, and they have her cryogenically preserved. It makes a powerful statement about science vs. spirituality, family dynamics and complicated grief. I had a very strong emotional (and […]

There Are No “Stages” of Grief

August 23, 2020 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

Can We Please Stop Talking About the “Stages of Grief?”  In my professional capacity as a pastoral counselor specializing in loss and grief, I hear from bereaved people almost daily about their struggles to find healing and peace after a profound loss.  For me, and for my most of my colleagues, it is endlessly frustrating […]

What Flowers Teach Us About Death

May 27, 2020 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

Nasturtiums have been my favorite flower since I planted my first garden in 1975. They are colorful, beautiful, prolific and easy to grow, and they can make any landscape look like a fairy tale kingdom. But they are also fragile, and if the sun hits them too hard for too long, the flowers will wilt, […]

How to Support a Terminally Ill Person

February 7, 2020 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

This Q&A was originally for an interview with healthcare website The Paper Gown  Q: If there were five rules for comforting someone who is terminally ill, what would they be? A. The role of chaplains and counselors who work with end-of-life is to help the patient and his/her family deal with the reality of their […]

I’m an End-of-Life Educator

January 25, 2020 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

Originally published on Business Insider, Jan. 24, 2020 I’m a Death and Grief Educator. Here’s What I Teach, and Here’s What I’ve Learned   It’s not the kind of career you dream about as a kid. It’s not glamorous like an astronaut or a rock star, and it’s not easy to explain when someone asks […]

A Magical Encounter in Utah

April 21, 2019 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

I spent several days in Salt Lake City this month giving presentations and making friends with some extraordinary people. Everywhere you look there are mountains, and it is gorgeous!  The only thing I didn’t like about Utah was how difficult it was to buy a bottle of wine. I felt like a criminal going into […]

Abraham-Hicks on Grief

October 12, 2018 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

This a brilliant explanation of death, loss, grief and inter-dimensional communication:

Death is a Miracle

May 15, 2018 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

DEATH IS A MIRACLE: A Channeled Message by Rev. Terri Daniel, MA, CT Excerpted from Embracing Death: A New Look at Grief, Gratitude and God Death is a miracle. People often say that birth is a miracle, and certainly it is, because the system through which we come to earth through each other’s bodies is […]

What is Complicated Grief?

April 29, 2018 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

The term “complicated grief” is greatly misunderstood by the bereaved, in large part because the word “complicated” has recently become a pop culture buzzword. Many people have said to me, “ALL grief is complicated,” which is evidence of this misunderstanding. Because all grief is NOT complicated. The majority of people move toward restoration and healing in […]

Creative Cremations

March 28, 2017 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

Creative Cremations, Home Funerals and at-Home Death Care Earlier this month a man in my neighborhood was dying, and his wife contacted me for end-of-life support. She honored their Buddhist tradition of keeping the body at home for three days after death. When it was time for cremation, with the help of home funeral expert […]

Death Education in Schools

November 1, 2016 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

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Is Death the New Sex? Last year there was a widely-circulated television news story about a ten year-old boy named  Kyler Bradley who was diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer. A news crew filmed Kyler in his classroom surrounded by his friends, who were eagerly listening to the instructions of their teacher, who directed them to “pray for a miracle.”  The […]

Forgiveness at end-of-life

August 1, 2016 By Dr. Terri Daniel, CT, CCTP

Forgiveness at End-of-Life Text and Illustration By Lizzy Miles, MA, MSW, LSW  Lizzy is a hospice social worker in Columbus, Ohio and author of Somewhere In Between: The Hokey Pokey, Chocolate Cake and the Shared Death Experience. She is best known for bringing the Death Cafe concept to the United States. As a hospice social worker, I have […]

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