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Doing It to Death is a sometimes irreverent, sometimes quirky but always informative dive into various aspects of death and dying through the lens of myth, storytelling and pop culture and how they shape our attitudes and beliefs around those issues.
Update frequency:
every 49 days
Average audio length:
18 minutes
English
Australia
8 episodes
since Aug. 7, 2022
episodic
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The trial of female serial killers such as Lucy Letby are shocking and confronting because of the longstanding myth that women are incapable of committing such crimes against others.
In this episode, we delve further into some of the female serial killers throughout history and how they've been…
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If you had the chance, would you use a wind phone to call your dead friends or family members and speak your messages to them into the wind?
Would you like to continue to receive voice or text messages from your loved ones after their death?
These questions and more are explored in this episode.
The themes of mortality and time are crucial to the human experience of trying to understand and come to terms with death.
Why are we so obsessed with time and, when it comes to death, why do we feel as though there's never enough time?
Come on a journey with me as we explore the tyranny of time.
A harbinger is defined as a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another, or a forerunner of something.
Just like psychopomps, it's generally believed that harbingers don't actually cause people to die, although if they do appear, death is pretty much a given.
The belie…
Two celebrations with a rich, colourful history going back thousands of years. Two celebrations that began with an intention of honouring, celebrating and reconnecting with those who've died.
What's happened since then? Are they still relevant today? Does anyone even know or care where or how t…
This month I'm joined by Karem and Diego from Frida Cacao to talk about the origins of this celebration, the rituals that make it so special and how participating in this celebration of the dead reflects the belief that death is not the end, merely a transition and transcendence.
For more infor…
What do Peter Pan and bees have in common?
They're both thought of as possible psychopomps - guides who accompany souls to the afterlife and bring hope, solace and comfort to the dying.
This episode explores the concept of psychopomps and their various iterations across a number of cultures and r…
Why are we as a species so consumed with living abnormally long lives and wanting to prolong, or even try and cheat, death?
The concept of immortality has been a common theme in literature for thousands of years and continues to appear across a number of genres.
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