Why We Should Celebrate Death
Constant Wonder - Season 2, Episode 29 , Segment 1
S2 E29: This Party's Dead
Episode: S2 E29: This Party's Dead
- Aug 31, 2022 12:00 pm
- 43:01 mins
In some cultures, the dead are regularly exhumed and carried about in celebration. Why, in the West, are we so much more somber about death and dead bodies? And what can we learn from the carnival atmosphere at many death festivals? Guest: Erica Buist, author of "This Party’s Dead: Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World’s Death Festivals"