Death & Dying: a never-ending story
Sep 16, 2026 · 42 min · 9 segments
In this episode I speak with Babs Gonzalez, a psychotherapeutic counsellor and nature based practitioner. Babs shares her love of Stephen King and how one specific story of his connects her to death…
Barbara GonzalezGuest
Peter Darby KnightHostSo beyond what you do for a living, Babs, what do you want people to know about you? What three things would you like people to know about you?
The pathways that I've been privileged enough to choose to go down have very much, you know, one of my most turning point moments in my life was shaped around an encounter with death.
And that my other decisions around what I do and how I choose to spend my time and energy are based around, you know, a deep caring for the earth, a deep connection and love there for everything on this planet and the species therein.
How can I, what is my role here on this earth? to support all life, to support this idea of compassionate existence, you know, in between species and in between humanity and the planet.
And having spent six years or so or more working around death and dying, what I like to think of as the reality of mortality, this idea that mortality landing with us, to me...
Yeah, yeah.
So everything that I am motivated by is this idea that we are always with death.
And the climate crisis and the ecological crisis, you know, speak of that on a huge macro, you know, insurmountable, you know, at times level level.
But that my role here, you know, in my little corner of Somerset, where I work and live, is to just do my little bit.
You know, for the people that I can touch or that my organisation can reach.
And I believe really, really strongly in the ripple effect, you know, that everything that we do, every person we encounter, that if that encounter comes from a place of kinship and deep understanding and connection and compassion, then that will ripple through.
So beyond what you do for a living, Babs, what do you want people to know about you? What three things would you like people to know about you?
The pathways that I've been privileged enough to choose to go down have very much, you know, one of my most turning point moments in my life was shaped around an encounter with death.
And that my other decisions around what I do and how I choose to spend my time and energy are based around, you know, a deep caring for the earth, a deep connection and love there for everything on this planet and the species therein.
How can I, what is my role here on this earth? to support all life, to support this idea of compassionate existence, you know, in between species and in between humanity and the planet.
And having spent six years or so or more working around death and dying, what I like to think of as the reality of mortality, this idea that mortality landing with us, to me...
Yeah, yeah.
So everything that I am motivated by is this idea that we are always with death.
And the climate crisis and the ecological crisis, you know, speak of that on a huge macro, you know, insurmountable, you know, at times level level.
But that my role here, you know, in my little corner of Somerset, where I work and live, is to just do my little bit.
You know, for the people that I can touch or that my organisation can reach.
And I believe really, really strongly in the ripple effect, you know, that everything that we do, every person we encounter, that if that encounter comes from a place of kinship and deep understanding and connection and compassion, then that will ripple through.
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