About Aneesha Arora
Aneesha Arora discussed her personal journey with death and dying in a September 2024 appearance. She stated that her interest began in her 20s after exposure to the teachings of Osho and Eastern mystics, who she said describe death as "the peak experience of our life." She noted that she began reading authors Steven LaVine and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in the 1980s Poisson. Arora said a significant influence was supporting a boyfriend through his dying process from cancer in Germany in the 2000s, after which she felt she "really need to look into this subject a little bit more."
Arora said that about 10 years ago she began training at the Conscious Dying Institute, studying death midwifery and thanatology. She stated that she first led a group focused on aging rather than dying, and now offers a three-module training that shares what she has learned in her "personal journey in aging and moving towards dying." She attributed her ongoing interest partly to the natural questions that arise with aging, such as "what has been the meaning of my life" and "what are my values."
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Yes, well, since I've been a fairly young adult in my 20s, I went to Osho. And anybody who knows anything about his teaching knows that he and all actually all Eastern mystics talk very much about death and dying, and often talk about it as being the peak experience of our life, the most important crescendo experience of our life. So that fascinated me to begin with. And just all those years of having this sense of the importance of learning to face our dying, to embrace our dying, has been an influence on me. And I started to read in the '80s. I started to read Steven Levine and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, who were really the first authors who talked about death and dying in the general public. So that also was fascinating to me. But I was doing my other work at the time, so there was no space in my life to consider doing much about death and dying. But my beloved boyfriend of mine, in around the 2000s, he got cancer, and we both went to Germany to live through his dying process. And that was a huge impression on me, to support him, to recognize how little I knew about death and dying. I was not as helpful as I wanted to be at that time, and I felt like I really need to look into this subject a little bit more. So another aspect that has been an influence on my personal interest in death and dying is the fact that I am aging, and there are many issues that arise in one's life when one is approaching the end of life. We start to naturally ask questions: what has been the meaning of life, of my life? What have I accomplished? Who have I loved? What's been important to me in this life? What are my values in my life? These questions naturally arise through aging. And at a certain point, maybe 10 years ago, I started doing trainings. There were many end-of-life doula trainings being offered in America. And so I worked at the Conscious Dying Institute, I worked with death midwifery, I worked with thanatology. I studied and studied, and I'm still studying about the process of death and dying. And so I began to lead a group actually not so much about dying but about aging. That was my first approach to teaching about death and dying. And now I'm offering this training, this three-module training, which is challenging to me. I've learned so much, and there's so much that I want to share. So that's what this training is about. It's sharing all the things that I have learned and that I have found valuable in my personal journey in aging and moving towards dying.
