The Violet Vulture

46: Living Well and Dying Well with Joanna Ebenstein


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Welcome to The Violet Vulture!

This season is entitled Penning the Dark. The formula is simple: me + guest who's written horror or about death, dying, the occult, or the obscure.

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Joanna Ebenstein (she/her)!


Joanna Ebenstein is the founder and creative director of Morbid Anatomy. An internationally recognized death expert, she is the author of several books, including Anatomica: The Exquisite and Unsettling Art of Human AnatomyDeath: A Graveside Companion, and The Anatomical Venus. She is also an award-winning curator, photographer, and graphic designer, and the teacher of the many times sold-out class Make Your Own Memento Mori: Befriending Death with Art, History and the Imagination. The descendant of holocaust survivors, she traces her lineage back to Judah Loew ben Bezalel, credited with creating the Golem in sixteenth-century Prague. 


We chatted about the following and then some:

  • Her most recent book, Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life,
  • The many lives Morbid Anatomy has lived over the years,
  • The timelessness of using art to explore personal and collective attitudes towards death across cultures,
  • Joanna's personal attitudes towards and relationship with death, and more.

  • If you've ever wondered how thinking of death can enrich your life, this one is for you.

    Joanna's website.

    Morbid Anatomy's website.

    Joanna's Instagram.

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