Benjamin Hackman — You’re Gonna Die

Heavy, REAL and life-affirming interview with Benjamin Hackman, frontman for the Holy Gasp and composer-in-residence at the Historic Kiever Synagogue in Toronto. We talk about our father’s deaths, the grieving/mourning process, grief in today’s culture, losing a parent, choosing life and much more.

Find it here, or get it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen.

The upcoming show, The Holy Gasp presents Grief, is on Wednesday, July 1, at 9:03pm — 5:41am Eastern Standard Time. Link to the livestream on Facebook and Youtube or on www.theholygasp.com. The public is invited to record the names of their deceased loved ones in the Database of the Dead. Each name entered into the database will later be inscribed into a scroll, from which Benjamin will read throughout the evening as the ensemble of 10 vocalists, 2 pianists, and percussion, performs Grief. The performance will be considered complete only after every name has been read, and the sun has come up.

Here’s a quote from Benjamin as part of his motivation

“In the last five years, my father died of a heart attack; my therapist died of pancreatic cancer; my brother-in-law overdosed; my oldest friend hanged himself — then another friend died in a car accident, and my grandmother, God bless her, died of good ol’ fashion old age. Death is…