Born to Die

Jenny and Crystal have a very casual conversation about time. We include topics and approaches from Oliver Burkman's book Four Thousand Weeks. This is a Born to LIVE episode, and it covers how we spend and manage our time from a day-to-day, mundane perspective, as well as how briefly we get to live.

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Sources of information:

How Do US Men and Women Spend Their Time? | Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025 | Pew Research Center

Four Thousand Weeks | Oliver Burkeman

The Tail End — Wait But Why

71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted

What It's Like Being Married to Neil deGrasse Tyson - Key & PeeleYouTube · Key & PeeleAug 23, 2021

Knocker uppers: Waking up the workers in industrial Britain - BBC News

Jenny and Crystal discuss the Tana Toraja in their third and final episode in the series about reanimating the dead.

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An Indonesian Tradition Of Digging Up Dead Relatives For A Spirited Afterlife Ritual

Torajan tribe Indonesia live with the dead: Death rituals | escape.com.au

Inside the Indonesian tribe that dig up their loved ones’ corpses, comb their hair and pose for family photos together |

Bringing Out the Dead 

PHOTOS: The Dead Live With Their Relatives In Indonesia's Toraja Community : Goats and Soda : NPR

Tau-Tau: funerary sculptures of the Toraja people – Mangosteens & Martlets

Famadihana, Madagascar: Sacred ritual unearths the dead | CNN

Famadihana In Madagascar: Turning Of The Bones Death Ritual | Funeral Guide

Exploring Famadihana: Madagascar's "Turning of the Bones" Tradition

Exhumation (Disinterment): Legal Reasons, Typical Costs, and the Step- | Funeral.com, Inc.

The Outlaw Whose Mummy Became a Traveling Show Prop | HISTORY

Mummification: what is it and how can it occur? | Gene Hackman | The Guardian

Jenny and Crystal discuss cryopreservation.

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Life After Death? Cryonicists Try To Defy Mortality By Freezing Bodies | Discover Magazine.

Poem 'Cryogenic Freezing': A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi | Society of Classical Poets

Here's why some people choose cryonics to store their bodies and brains after death 

Cryopreservation and its clinical applications - PMC

Who wants to live forever? The future of human cryogenics - The Brighter Side of News

Immortality within reach: Cryonics and the quest for eternal life - The Brighter Side of News

Want to live longer? Startup aims to bring you back from the dead - The Brighter Side of News

Ice Inhibition for Cryopreservation: Materials, Strategies, and Challenges - Chang - 2021 - Advanced Science - Wiley Online Library

The Versatility of Cryogenics: 10 Interesting Applications | Noblegen

Cryopreservation vs Vitrification: Best for Long-term Storage

How Cryonics Works: Cooling A Human Body From 37°c To -196°c ExplainedYouTube · Tomorrow BioDec 15, 2023

These animals can freeze solid in winter. Here’s how they survive. | National Geographic

image of the first man cryopreserved - Google Search

Cryopreservation Procedures - Alcor Life Extension Foundation

Part one of a new series on reanimating the dead! Jenny and Crystal explore the history of using electricity to bring the deceased back to life.

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Giovanni Aldini: This Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein Electrified the Dead | Discover Magazine

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https://www.history.com/articles/enlightenment

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https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/34452465/bring-people-back-dead-four-ways-humans-resurrect/

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What does cryopreservation do to human bodies? - BBC News

The Cryonics Companies Selling the Dream of Life After Death - Business Insider

Jenny and Crystal discuss the American Civil War, casualties, and the roots of our hospital systems and embalming.

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Source Notes:

Embalming chemicals - Wikipedia

Sunday Adverts: When Indy put the "Fun" in Funeral | Historic Indianapolis | All Things Indianapolis History

Embalming and the Civil War - National Museum of Civil War Medicine - National Museum of Civil War Medicine

How Civil War Deaths Advanced America’s Funeral Industry | HISTORY

- Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science

A Captain Describes the New Process of Embalming | Wisconsin Historical Society

What Exactly Is In Embalming Fluid?

Embalming and the Civil War - National Museum of Civil War Medicine - National Museum of Civil War Medicine

How Civil War Deaths Advanced America’s Funeral Industry | HISTORY

How Civil War Deaths Advanced America’s Funeral Industry | HISTORY

The Civil War By the Numbers | American Experience | Official Site | PBS

Sunday Adverts: When Indy put the "Fun" in Funeral | Historic Indianapolis | All Things Indianapolis History

Facts - The Civil War (U.S. National Park Service)

How Many Died in the American Civil War? | HISTORY

Gettysburg Battle Facts and Summary | American Battlefield Trust

Jenny and Crystal discuss the long lives of the Greenland Shark and the Naked Mole Rat.

Old Ladies of the Sea – National Geographic Education Blog

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/

Sharks vs. the Universe: Just How Old Are Sharks Compared to the Cosmos? - Lowell Observatory

These Bizarre, Centuries-Old Greenland Sharks May Have a Hidden Longevity Superpower | Scientific American

Blind, slow and 500 years old – or are they? How scientists are unravelling the secrets of Greenland sharks | Sharks | The Guardian

Greenland Sharks Can Live for 400 Years. Scientists Are Using DNA to Unravel Their Longevity Secrets

Greenland shark | Size, Age, & Facts | Britannica

Inhibitory effect of Greenland shark liver oil combined with squalen and arctic birch ashes on angiogenesis and L-1 sarcoma growth in Balb/c mice - PubMed

Sharks, explained | National Geographic

Anthony Bourdain Refused To Ever Eat Hakarl Again

This Is What Fermented Shark Tastes Like | One Man’s Brush with Iceland’s Most Unusual Food

Beyond Sauerkraut: A Brief History of Fermented Foods

Saving the Greenland shark | Marine Stewardship Council

Adopt Choices for Naked Mole Rat - CMZoo

Do animals grieve? How to animals express grief? What is known? What have we experienced first-hand? Crystal and Jenny base this entire episode on the book, "How Animals Grieve" by Barbara J. King. We read and loved the book and we wanted to share our own thoughts!

We would love to hear from listeners directly! We can be reached by email at [email protected] or on social media at @borntodie-pod.bsky.social

Thank you for your precious time and thank you to Barbara J. King for her magnificent book How Animals Grieve.

https://www.barbarajking.com/books/how-animals-grieve/

How Animals Grieve - Barbara J. King

https://www.barbarajking.com

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https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/205362868-playing-possum

https://susanamonso.com

Life-saving mice shock scientists by performing first aid - YouTube

https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1053&context=acwp_awap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=511nWKjNFpw

Heartbreaking story of dolphin who played TV’s Flipper - Animal Rescue Society

Common Bottlenose Dolphin | NOAA Fisheries

Orca who captured world's attention in 2018 seen carrying another dead calf - YouTube

Orca who carried dead newborn has lost another calf and is carrying it again

Orca Conservancy

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Jenny's childhood friend shares her personal story of what it was like when her Grandma died at home with family by her side. This is a "good death" - one shared with loved ones. What is it like to support a loved one as they pass at home?

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Home is now the most common place of death in the U.S. | Reuters

Who dies where? Estimating the percentage of deaths that occur at home | BMJ Global Health

Who dies where? Estimating the percentage of deaths that occur at home - PubMed

Where Americans Die — Is There Really “No Place Like Home”? - PMC

QuickStats: Percentage of Deaths, by Place of Death — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2000–2018 | MMWR

Changes in the Place of Death in the United States | New England Journal of Medicine

Where people die - Harvard Health

Common locations of death in the U.S. 2016| Statista

Jenny and Crystal interview Carley Sutton and learn about the many duties of a Death Doula.