, MSN, RN, AHN-BC, HWNC-BC, Holistic RN Pt Advocate, founder of RN Patient Advocacy NC, PLLC, and the Holistic RN Patient Advocacy Training Institute®, has a BSN from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, and MSN from UNC-Chapel Hill. Karen has over forty years of nursing experience in diverse clinical, education and leadership positions including Critical Care, Nursing Education, Case Management, and Clinical Informatics. With a passion for helping others, Karen helps patients and families navigate the dysfunctional, healthcare system with less stress and more peace of mind. She teaches “Become an Informed Consumer Advocate for Your Healthcare,” to older adults at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC, and she co-leads the Asheville Death Cafe also at OLLI, on the third Friday of the month. 


 is the founder of Thirdmessenger ( www.thirdmessenger) a grassroots community organization that promotes Being and Dying. He is a curator of public events such as Death Café for over 10 years and in 2014 the Before I Die Wall in downtown Nashville with over hundred thousand visitors. His personal mission is to impact local communities through bringing forth Death Literacy education. Besides being a positive death activist, CDI Sacred Passage doula and Four Seasons Hospice volunteer his activism integrates his passion as a creative in his work with Being with dying. His professional career as a business development strategist and managing director was in identity design in Los Angeles , New York and San Francisco where Saïd had a background in branding and corporate identity and worked with both for profit and non profit institutions in healthcare, entertainment Arts and education. He lives in Zirconia ( the sticks) in Western North Carolina outside of Asheville. 

The Last Ecstatic Days Movie

The Last Ecstatic Days Movie (Australia)

The Last Ecstatic Days Screening with Karen Sanders & Saïd Osio

Scott Kirschenbaum

Prerana Thakurdesai

Hannah Fowler

Alex Harvey

David Seidler

Gail Harris

Jessica Zitter

Landon Maloney

Linda Rothman

Greg Lathrop

Brent Skidmore

Tommy Pallotta

Ethan Sisser

Aditi Sethi

Ethan Sisser, a young man with terminal brain cancer, sits alone in his hospital room. When he starts livestreaming 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. To support the film's impact campaign, please visit: https://givebutter.com/thelastecstaticdays

Documentary

Saïd Osio

Karen C. Sanders