If you’re anything like Katie and me you have a low-grade, background anxiety about death. In this edition of Doing What Works we share what helps us in case it helps you. Bonus feature? Never, ever do what Darrell did as a kid. You’ll be sorry!

Here are your show notes…

Jerry Weintraub said death keeps the rope taut.

In Tuesdays with Morrie, Morrie suggested asking a little bird on your shoulder if today is the day you will die.

Barbara Sher said the passage of time drives you crazy when you know you aren’t using it right.  

Elizabeth Gilbert says you can tell who’s living for others by the anguished look on the faces of the others.

It might be helpful when you’re struggling to think, “This is the curriculum.”

Betty White wasn’t afraid to die.