5 hours, life review support: $700
10 hours, digitally recorded life story interviewing: $2000
Life review is a process of recollecting, evaluating, and attributing meaning to our experiences and our memories. Life review activities can include: life story interviews, autobiographical writing, in-person storytelling, letters of advice for younger generations, genealogy work, or keeping a private journal of your reflections.
WHAT ARE LIFE STORY INTERVIEWS?
A life story interview is an exploration of your life: the adventures and the relationships, the important choices and the hard lessons, the big events and the routines of everyday life, the ups and the downs. It is my job as interviewer to guide you through the richness of your life experiences- it is your job to enjoy the exploration. These audio-recorded sessions let you focus on telling your story, without the need to compose your prose or type up your manuscripts. I offer the support of a specially-trained professional interviewer with years of experience in end-of-life care.
WHY LIFE STORY INTERVIEWS?
People often wish to have meaningful interactions with each other at the end of life, but it can be hard to figure out how to make that happen. The exploration of life stories contained in our interview recordings often work as an inspiration and even a catalyst for richer interactions at end of life– topics for conversation and shared reminiscences that emphasize connection, move interactions beyond the superficial, and focus on the life of the dying person, rather than their death process.
After a person is gone, these audio recordings can be a valuable part of the mourning process and a ‘piece’ of that person their loved ones can revisit as time passes. Just as photographs serve to preserve and remind us of what our loved ones looked like and moments we shared, these audio recordings preserve and remind us how they sounded: their voices, their laughter, the rhythm and cadence of their speech, the subtle but familiar intonations that reflect emotion.