00:12 Who are you and what is your relationship with Som Provisionals?
01:35 How, when, and why did Som Provisionals emerge?02:37 What kind of process is Som Provisionals?
06:26 Who is responsible for leading the work of this cooperative?
06:50 How do you sustain the work within the cooperative economically?
06:50 You mentioned that two of the people in the cooperative are “self-employed.” For those who are not familiar with the Spanish system, can you explain what working as “self-employed” entails?
09:15 On your website you indicate that the organization is made up of the core team, collaborators, and a support community—people from different fields motivated to experience death with awareness and sovereignty. What role do these collaborators and the support community play?
11:34 Within Som Provisionals you work as Death Doulas, accompanying the end of life and its closure. Can you explain what this work consists of from the cooperative’s perspective?
13:22 How is the Doula figure received in Spanish society?
14:34 Do you think that the strong presence of the Catholic Church and its end-of-life rituals in any way hinders the presence of other figures who accompany the process? 16:51:34 You mentioned your relationship with healthcare personnel; do you work as a team with them?
20:00 Do you think your role as companions is understood within an overburdened public healthcare system?
20:40 On your website we read that Som Provisionals is dedicated to “building a support network to care for dying with love and in community.” What does it mean to “care for dying” with “love” and in “community”?
24:23 How do you work to strengthen self-management and collective empowerment around the dying process?
26:00 Where do the accompaniments you provide take place?
27:02 What does Som Provisionals understand by “dying with dignity”?
30:08 From your experience, do you think that in this country there is comprehensive training to accompany a person in their death, addressing all their needs and dimensions?
31:49 Do you think there is any link between the taboo around death and the maintenance of the capitalist system?
34:23 Does your perspective change in any way when you consciously live in connection with living and dying?
37:40 What is the appropriate mechanism for contacting you and requesting your help in the dying process?
39:18 What do you think motivates families to request this kind of accompaniment?
40:20 What have you learned from your accompaniment work?
42:40 You also accompany the end-of-life process by helping families organize closing ceremonies and rituals. How do you participate in these ceremonies?
45:43 In this country, what protocol must be activated once a person dies, and how much time is available to carry it out?
48:29 I understand that Som Provisionals positions itself in opposition to the funeral industry. Can you explain this stance?
51:51 What kinds of funeral costs are we talking about?
55:45 What is the difference between the capitalist logic of “you choose,” so characteristic of the funeral business, and the logic of sovereignty over one’s own end defended by Som Provisionals?
57:04 What does your collaboration with the non-profit funeral home Santa Susana consist of? What kind of funeral home is it?
01:01:03 What have you learned from your collaboration with the Santa Susana Funeral Home?
01:03:25 I read that you also provide grief accompaniment. Can you explain what this accompaniment consists of?
01:05:04 Euthanasia is legal in Spain. Do you discuss this option in your trainings or interventions?
01:06:39 You mentioned a star within this Constellation, the Right to Die with Dignity (DMD), as part of the good dying community. Who else accompanies you on your path?
01:09:50 Thinking about your own trajectory, how do you nourish confidence in the transformation of systems in a time marked by energy collapse, a civilizational crisis, and a general situation of political disaffection?
01:02:53 From the Constellation of the Commons we are working on producing a proactive and inspiring imaginary that encourages citizen participation in the pending eco-social, political, and economic transformation. Can you share some good news from Som Provisionals that helps strengthen this vision?
“SOM PROVISIONALS is a Catalan non-profit cooperative made up of people from different fields and backgrounds, but united by the same motivation: to experience death in a conscious and sovereign way. We work to strengthen self-management and collective empowerment, building alternatives to a funeral industry and an economic system that commodify life at the expense of the well-being of people and the planet.”
