Episode one of Mortality Minded is here!

Find out how the podcast will work, what it means to be mortality minded, and why we generally have so much trouble thinking and talking about the end of life—yet how that’s been slowly changing in recent years. You’ll also get to know me, Thomas Gaudio, and how I became interested in a subject most people avoid.

Below are links to some things and people I mention in this episode:

Books:

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl

On The Shortness of Life by Seneca

Other:

Catharine DeLong, music thanatologist

Death Cafe

Endwell

Integrative Thanatology Certificate Program

Reimagine End of Life

Terror management theory

And I share my daily mortality mantras with you. I say both to myself every morning, usually during the ice cold shower I take shortly after getting out of bed to help wake my groggy ass up and start the day off right. I hope they help you as much as they help me.

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Thanks for listening. Until next time, stay mortality minded.

(Music: Brass Beat by Blake © 2011 licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.)