Lo Carmen gets into facing your own mortality, seizing the day and changing perceptions with indie rock musician Queen Kwong, aka Carré Kwong Callaway, who also writes two Substacks - Historical Hysteria (music/memoir), and Diary of A Death Doula, where she explores death and dying as she studies to become a death doula.

Music on this episode used with permission.

I Found A Reason - Queen Kwong from STRANGERS EP ℗ 2024 Eternal Music Group/Composed by Lou Reed /Performed by Carré Kwong Callaway and produced by Darian Zahedi

Stanley RIP - Queen Kwong from Couples Only 2022, produced by Joe Cardamone and mixed by Tchad Blake/Written and performed by Carré Kwong Callaway

Don’t Forget This Feeling - Written by Will Lanier and performed by Carré Kwong Callaway, never released teenage bedroom demo .

Tracks below used with permission from Epidemic Sound:

Muted Conversations Pt 1 by Velvet Head

Gentle Reminder by JF Gloss

Frustration In Disguise by Taylor Crane

Foggy Skies by Marin Klem

Evening At Djupvik Harbour by They Dream By Day

Downstreams by Roots & Recognitions

Diaphanous Dreamboats by Silver Maple

Ghost Town River by River Foxcroft

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The cover image 'Surrounded By Your Beauty' is an original painting by Craig Waddell, used with his kind permission.

The Death Is Not The End Theme and incidental music composed, recorded & performed by Peter Head.

Death Is Not The End sting written by Bob Dylan, recorded & performed by Peter Head.

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