Karen van Vuuren is a former broadcast news journalist who has worked in radio and television in Europe and Asia. Since moving from the UK to the US, van Vuuren has pursued her interest in end-of-life issues, working in the fields of hospice and elder care, while producing educational media.
She has produced radio segments such as The Practice of Living and Dying which featured the work of Scott Eberle of the School of Lost Borders. Eberle is a hospice physician and author who leads wilderness rites of passage in which participants experience a symbolic death and rebirth.
In 2007, van Vuuren directed the documentary, Dying Wish (www.dyingwishmedia.com) a film about a dying doctor’s decision to stop eating and drinking to ease his death and die with grace.
Go in Peace! is Karen van Vuuren’s second documentary film.
Van Vuuren is also the founder and executive director of educational non-profit, Natural Transitions (www.naturaltransitions.org), supporting conscious, holistic approaches to end of life. She was the editor of the organization’s biannual magazine, Natural Transitions for more than ten years. She currently is co-host of the FREE monthly community forum, The Parlour. Download the magazine issue on veteran’s care from dropbox.com by clicking on this LINK.
Karen, Shanti, and Jack, WWII veteran by Jonathan Machen at www.jonathanmachen.com