☠️🏔It’s official: Marianne has deadly mountains on the brain and she can’t get enough!
💫This week she breaks down her deep dive into K2 after an update with her first murder mountain love, Mt. Everest. K2, while not quite as tall as Mt. Everest, has proven to be a significantly more treacherous peak to climb, with a litany of associated tragic expeditions and plenty of broken and frozen bodies to show for it. She regales the wide-eyed DIE crew with a plethora of stats, exploratory lore, perilous vistas, and stories a-plenty of humanity’s continued effort to reach new heights, albeit often with a cost. Tune in to this first of several installments on the mighty K2!
💀💀💀💀It was our pleasure to interview Liz Scott, psychologist and writer, whose new book “You’re Going to Die… But Not Me!” is a poignant and hilarious discourse on her exploration of her fears concerning death.
✨️Today she talks with us about her personal experiences with death and death care, her perspective on mortality, and what if anything may come after. We also hear her thoughts on burial practices and how she views people’s personal perception of death and the natural fear of the unknown. Her book is a deep and clever look into one person’s headspace concerning death and the larger existential and philosophical concepts at play, all done with a sense of humor that brings levity to sombre subject matter. We cannot recommend it enough!
☠️🐜💀🐜💀🐜☠️We were so fascinated by our examination of ant death practices and had such great morsels of information left on the cutting room floor that we decided to continue the discussion for another 7 Minutes (in Heaven)! They may at times be an unwelcome nuisance, but it’s hard to knock a species with such nuance to their practices with the dead. Are we joining Team Ant? Maaaaybe, just not in the house if that’s possible, thank you.
⏳️💀We spend a lot of time on Death is Everything espousing a death-positive outlook, but the prospect of death can be a terrifying concept. While it is perfectly natural to worry about death, it becomes problematic when these cycles of thought overwhelm and have a negative impact on daily life. Thanatophobia is the fear of death, an anxious state of mind that affects the lives of many people.
💫This week we interview Marlyn and get to the bottom of her thanatophobia, from its gestation in her childhood thoughts to how it shows up in her mind on a daily basis. She recounts the role of loss in her life and how it has shaped her perspective on living fully in the moment. Listen in and join us in witnessing Marlyn’s unique perspective on death, dying, and living a fulfilling life. Remember to seize the day, Land of the Living, because you’ve gotta make it count!
☠️🐜Here at Death is Everything we have the utmost respect for those who help people in their transition to death. Heck, some of us on this show do it for a living! So we find unique camaraderie with this week’s 7 Minutes in Heaven as we break out the magnifying glass and look at ant undertakers. That’s right, it turns out that even shrunken down to insect size, there are roles in caring for the dead. It’s a small world after all!
💭☠️We’re starting the new season of Death is Everything with a bang, or at least a long, protracted toot! Pass time (and certainly not anything else) with Marianne, Chris, Angel and sometimes Joey as they divulge crucial DIE Crew lore and commiserate over the horrors of modern living. Then enjoy a cut up of curious life-and-death stories. No cheese involved, but there are cute cat statues, a dose of legendary grave robbing, vampiric burials, and history’s coolest mine-hunting rat. Where will our rambling tangents and rumbling tummies take us today? Listen in to find out, Land of the Living!
⚠️WARNING: Consumption of this episode of 7 Minutes in Heaven may induce bewilderment 😵💫and second-hand hilarity🤣. Okay, now that we’re not liable for your future dangerously negligent actions, listen in as the DIE Crew rattle off some absolutely outrageous product warning labels!
😉🤫😂By the way, that cloud in the background and smell in the air are the natural byproduct of pure professional podcasting prowess.
☘️💀Sit down and please answer this one simple but imperative question: Are you wearing something green? Oh lordy you’d better say yes because it’s St. Patrick’s Day, and the penalty for not wearing green is dire. Could it be…. mmmDEATH?!*
✨️☠️Join the DIE Crew as we look into the origin of this most Irish of holidays, which in Death is Everything tradition involves healthy doses of Paganism and death. We take a look at the life of St. Patrick, his historic deeds, and his many Houdini-like escapes from captivity. Plus guess what: part of his name is not quite true, and it isn’t the “Patrick” part. Then we look into associated lore and symbolism for the holiday and, naturally, an associated gangland massacre, as is par for the course with holidays it would seem. Listen in while you “drain the shamrock,” but no driving during or after. Celebrate responsibly, Land of the Living!
⚡️* Nope, sorry, it’s pinching. Not quite our cup of tea but it is what it is.
☠️💫It’s time for DIE Variety Hour, where we present you death-related stories to tickle your fancy! We present to you a rare case of someone mistaken for dead on the precipice of being cremated; a lottery for coveted Paris burial plots with a costly but cool catch; the terrifying answer to the common worry, “What if I don’t make it back onto the cruise ship before it leaves port?” (hint: death); and a kooky caste of nuns trying to make their way home. Join us for good times and hearty laughs… while you can!
💀👾P.S. Welcome to the DIE Crew, Joey! He’s been on board writing blurbs and helping with show research for a few months now, so feel free to give him a ghostly disembodied wave as you listen. Cheers!
🪦❄️What do you do when it is time to bury the deceased but the ground is frozen? Since we at DIE reside in sunny Los Angeles (sorry/not sorry, residents of places with “Real Weather”) it is a bit of a foreign concept, but one that our death-coded minds are nonetheless curious about, so today on 7 Minutes in Heaven we look at some crucial cold weather funerary practices. Come break the ice with us, Land of the Living! Or, well, you do that while we enjoy our blue skies and golden sunshine. Muahahaha!
✨️🗑🟰👗❤️🔥The classic adage “one person’s trash is another’s treasure” is apropos for this week’s guest. Jessica of Holzbrennen Studio is an artist who works with what she dubs “trashion”: clothing made from up-cycled discarded materials. Her works are both intricate pieces of fashion and an excellent way to repurpose refuse. We talk about the inspiration behind her projects, her goals and aspirations, and of course her outlook on death and burial.
Tune in and check out Jessica’s amazing creations!
