
Death Dhamma
Where there is birth, there will also be death. You know this. But do you really connect with it, embrace it, live it and welcome it into your practice? Welcome to Death Dhamma. A place where death will be your teacher. Together we will explore how the ultimate impermanence can strengthen our practice and improve the quality of our lives.
Margaret Meloni, PhD is a Theravada Buddhist practitioner, businessperson, and the author of Carpooling with Death: How living with Death will make you Stronger, Wiser and Fearless. One day, while navigating the demands of everyday life; she realized that more significant challenges were coming her way. She began to realize that the people she loved were going to die. Her mother-in-law, Lee, was in her 90s, her parents were approaching their 80s, and her husband, Ed, had already outlived his father. She had already said goodbye to others.
She began to wonder, “How can I handle losing the people I love the most?” The answer to her question came from her reliance on her Buddhist practice. Now that she has made friends with death, her goal is to help all of us to accept death as an essential part of life.
Death Dhamma is published monthly.


To Say Goodbye to Suffering, Learn to Say Hello to Difficult Emotions
Margaret Meloni, PhD
18 February 2021
Coming face-to-face with grief

Can’t Sit with It? Then Walk with It!
Margaret Meloni, PhD
30 January 2021
Taking steps toward knowing our grief

If You Want to Be Ready for Death, Train Like an Athlete
Margaret Meloni, PhD
29 December 2020
Changing our relationship with death

Death and Equanimity
Margaret Meloni, PhD
26 November 2020
Accepting death as part of the landscape of life

The Problem with Ghosts
Margaret Meloni, PhD
31 October 2020
On the pros and cons of seeing our dead loved ones

Grief and the Four Noble Truths
Margaret Meloni, PhD
26 September 2020
On going back to the basics while grieving

Please Don’t Come Back
Margaret Meloni, PhD
1 September 2020
On clinging, suffering, and rebirth

Can You Wish Metta to the Dying?
Margaret Meloni, PhD
29 July 2020
On loving-kindness, death, and impermanence

Death During this Time of Social Distancing
Margaret Meloni, PhD
30 June 2020
A new column on death and dying by Margaret Meloni