Join us for Kirtan with Aditi Sethi, vocal and harmonium, Jay Brown on guitar, and Mark Gangadhar Gerhard, tabla, and a special screening of “The Last Ecstatic Days” featuring a director's talk, and a Q&A with Aditi Sethi and Ram Dev Dale Borglum.
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About the Film
Ethan Sisser, a young man with terminal brain cancer, sits alone in his hospital room. When he starts live streaming his death journey on social media, thousands of people around the world join to celebrate his courage. Still, Ethan envisions more – to teach the world how to die without fear. To do that, he needs to film his death.
Honoring Ethan's wish, his doctor Aditi Sethi transports him to an idyllic house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. What unfolds next is a story rarely glimpsed: how a community of strangers helps a young man die with grace.
A sensory immersion into leaving the body, “The Last Ecstatic Days” reveals a man who will not let us forget him – even after he’s taken his final breath.
About our Guests
Dr. Aditi Sethi is the founder of the Center for Conscious Living & Dying and was featured in the documentary “The Last Ecstatic Days,” Dr. Aditi Sethi is a hospice and palliative care physician, end-of-life doula, and musician. Aditi is an emerging and important voice for shifting our culture’s understanding and approach to dying, death, and bereavement care, and was a featured speaker for TEDxAsheville in March 2024.
RamDev Dale Borglum, with Ram Dass and Stephen Levine, founded the conscious dying movement in the West. He created the Hanuman Foundation Dying Center in Santa Fe and is the Executive Director of the Living/Dying Project. He has taught meditation since 1974.
