Nurturing Community, Connection & Transitions: Dying Well - The Last Ecstatic Days in Oakland, CA
Sun, Aug 17
|Heart and Soul Center of Light
We warmly invite you to an evening of heartfelt reflection on our shared journey with death, featuring a screening of The Last Ecstatic Days followed by a QxA and live music and storytelling.
Time & Location
Aug 17, 2025, 3:30 PM – 6:30 PM PDT
Heart and Soul Center of Light, 5811 Racine St, Oakland, CA 94609, USA
About the Event
We warmly invite you to an evening of heartfelt reflection on our shared journey with death.
On Sunday, August 17, 2025, Oakland’s Heart and Soul Center of Light and the Center for Conscious Living & Dying will host a screening of The Last Ecstatic Days—a tender and powerful documentary that follows the story of Ethan Sisser, a young man who faced his dying process with profound courage, grace, and vision.
Following the film, there will be an in-person conversation with Dr. Aditi Sethi, founder of the Center for Conscious Living & Dying in Swannanoa, NC and others who will offer their wisdom and experience. Aditi accompanied Ethan through his final days, and the experience reshaped her path from hospice physician to advocate for community-centered end-of-life care.
The evening will be enriched by live music offered by Roots Grown Deep—a world music trio featuring Joel Karabo Elliott, Jay Brown, and Aditi Sethi—whose sounds weave together reverence, celebration, and connection.
Entrance is by donation, suggested $20-50. Donations benefit Heart & Soul, CCLD & the musicians.
Local inquiries, please call:
(510) 250-2082
The Last Ecstatic Days film trailer:
https://youtu.be/Og4ItddToWk?si=fE9CF0_xexCInViH
Learn more about CCLD here:
Healing our relationship with death | Conscious living and dying in community
Learn more about Roots Grown Deep and their recent album, reSonate reFlect reLease reMember, inspired by the CCLD movement and featuring the CCLD One Voice Community Choir
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