Michael Hebb
Founder of Death Over Dinner
Michael is the Founder of Death Over Dinner and the End Of Life Collective (launches in May). His book “Let’s Talk About Death (Over Dinner)” appeared on bookshelves last year and has now been published in 12 countries. He has been gathering folks at the dinner table for the past 20 years and has worked closely with a long list of thought leadership organizations such as the World Economic Forum, The Obama Foundation, TED, Summit, ReBoot and many others. And… he strongly believes that the dinner table is one of the most effective tools to change culture.
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Legacy Projects
Death Over Dinner – Jewish Edition
The way we die is the most important conversation Americans are not having. Talking about death is not easy and we’re not used to it, but we believe that this conversation ultimately helps us appreciate the fullness of life. We welcome you to invite friends and family to fill a table and use the Death Over Dinner project to help you tap into some age-old Jewish wisdom around grieving and ritual, living and dying.
Podcasts
Death
Is there something peculiar to Judaism that makes us think about death differently? With no proscription for a definitive heaven or afterlife, how does that affect how we live our lives and think about death? Are Jewish rituals an effective way of dealing with grief? Are there better ways to think and talk about death with friends and family? In our final episode from season 2 we address these questions with British comedian David Baddiel (who you might remember from this season’s atheism episode), Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie from NYC’s Lab/Shul, founder of Death Over Dinner and DoD Jewish Edition Michael Hebb and Dan Crane’s 97-year-old nana.