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Gentle conversations about death, ritual, and memory.
On the Table with Ashley is an interview-led show about how people make meaning around loss. Recent episodes move through funeral history, humanist ceremonies, memorial tattoos, Dia de los Muertos traditions, palliative care, and the practical decisions families often postpone.
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On the Table with Ashley is an intimate interview show for listeners willing to sit with hard subjects slowly. Its recent Death Rituals series centers death, grief, remembrance, and the many ways communities care for the dead. The tone is calm rather than sensational. Episodes tend to begin with a person’s childhood or path into the work, then widen into the customs, tools, and meanings behind that work. Funeral history becomes a story about symbols, trade materials, and why ordinary people may know so little about an industry that eventually touches every family. Death studies becomes a way to ask how technology, cemeteries, culture, and policy shape public ideas of care. Memorial tattooing becomes more than image and ink, especially when Paul Cutler explains ash-infused tattoos as a careful process for preserving connection. Oliveira Street’s Dia de los Muertos celebration becomes a living Los Angeles tradition, rooted in merchants, history, and pre-Columbian Aztec, Mayan, and Catholic rituals. Humanist funerals become a secular language for goodbye, shaped through listening, values, stories, and relationships. Genevieve Keeney-Vazquez brings a direct respect for the body, moving from military death response to funeral work and the National Museum of Funeral History. Dr. Alexander Gamble’s palliative care conversation approaches fear, letting go, and living buoyantly without pretending peace is simple. The show is practical when it needs to be. It asks what families should talk about before crisis arrives. It also makes room for awe, discomfort, and the small surprise of learning that a funeral museum can make visitors say wow. The interviews are often explanatory, but they do not feel cold. They translate professional language into human terms. They look for the thread between ritual detail and emotional need. The strongest episodes make preparation feel less like morbidity and more like responsibility. For a subject many people avoid, the show offers patience, context, and a steady table to gather around.
Made for: For listeners who want thoughtful conversations about grief, funeral choices, cultural remembrance, palliative care, and how families prepare for loss. It suits people drawn to personal stories, ritual history, and practical end-of-life questions handled with warmth.
What sets it apart: The show joins emotional candor with concrete ritual detail, moving from embalming, museums, tattoos, and street festivals to the private meanings families carry. It is less about grief as a concept than about the people who tend, preserve, design, explain, and remember.
> > On the Table with Ashley is a podcast presented by luxury home goods > brand, Âme Atendre. Join host Ashley Gould as she speaks with thought > provoking individuals on their varied life experiences and professions. On > the Table with Ashley covers any topic we can put on the table, with the > goal of increasing human connection through curiosity, respect and > understanding.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ashley turns conversations about death, ritual and wellness into practical examinations of how people care for themselves and one another.
Ashley builds interviews around the practical details people often avoid discussing. Conversations with palliative care doctor Dr. Alex Gamble and funeral professional Genevieve Keeney-Vazquez examine how people prepare for death, care for bodies and make decisions for their…
Ashley makes death discussable, so you can trade dread for questions without pretending mortality is cheerful.
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A funeral history conversation that connects ritual, reading, and professional history.
Todd Harra's conversation with Ashley gives funeral history a concrete, bookish, and unexpectedly human shape. He moves from childhood reading habits to the book that changed his direction, then into the patient work of gathering old funeral journals, trade magazines, and scraps…
A measured look at funeral choices, ritual, and the clarity that comes from facing death directly.
The piece treats funeral history as a practical way to think about how grief becomes ritual. Genevieve Aquini Vasquez, a U.S. Army veteran who started as a medic and worked on military death response teams before entering the funeral profession, comes across with the steady…
A steady look at funeral decisions, body respect, and the work grief asks of families.
This installment of the Death Rituals series follows Genevieve Kini Vasquez from military death response teams into the funeral profession and museum leadership, and it keeps circling one clear question: how a dead body is treated with respect, and what that choice means for the…
A calm, grounded conversation about preparing for loss and learning to let go.
The re-release of Dr. Alexander Gamble's conversation with Ashley treats death as something that can be named without losing its weight. The episode stays practical and humane as it moves from palliative care into the quieter work of preparing for loss, and the comparison to…
A steady close to the wellness series, anchored by timely, science-based health talk.
On the Table with Ashley closes its wellness series with a practical, clear-eyed look at wellness and a welcome push past quick fixes. Dr. Joan Salji-Blake brings real authority as a clinical professor, dietetic internship director, nutrition blogger, and host of Spot On, and…
Anne Kornblut, Meta's VP of global product content operations and a Pulitzer-winning former Washington Post editor, traces her path from a Harriet the Spy-loving kid near Washington, DC to a 150-person team shaping content standards for machine learning.
Ashley talks with Todd about his path into funeral service and the history that led him there.
This episode features an interview with death studies scholar John Troyer, exploring how cultures worldwide use rituals to honor death and transform grief through ceremony, creativity, and community.
This episode features an interview with tattoo artist Paul Cutler about his specialized work creating memorial tattoos that incorporate cremated ashes into ink, exploring how this practice honors loved ones and transforms grief.
This episode explores the cultural significance of Dia de los Muertos celebrations on Olvera Street in Los Angeles through an interview with Christina Mariscal Pasten, focusing on how the Olvera Street Merchants Association preserves and promotes these death rituals.
This episode features an interview with Blake Hutchings, a humanist celebrant from Humanist UK, discussing secular funerals and how non-religious ceremonies honor death and grief.
Part two of the Death Rituals series stays with Genevieve, a U.S.
Part 1 of the Death Rituals series opens on how people honor death, grief, and remembrance.
On The Table with Ashley re-releases an August 2024 conversation with Dr.
Ashley opens the final wellness-series episode by putting wellness up against quick fixes and fleeting health trends.
This episode continues a conversation about grief and losing a child to cancer, exploring personal experiences and emotional healing.
This episode is part one of an interview with Heather Mansson, who shares her personal experience of losing a child to cancer and discusses grief, healing, and her transition from pharmacist to yoga instructor.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
This episode continues the conversation with Kane Hodder, discussing his journey from surviving severe burns to becoming an iconic horror actor who played Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th multiple times.
This episode features an interview with Kane Hodder, discussing his journey from surviving severe burns to becoming a horror icon known for playing Jason Voorhees and other infamous characters.