Memento Morbid
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<div> <p>Fascinating, poignant, and surprisingly life-affirming conversations about death, the human condition, and life’s great mysteries.<br> <br> Join <strong>Joanna Ebenstein</strong>, founder of Morbid Anatomy, for Memento Morbid, a series of surprisingly life-affirming conversations around topics that tend to be deemed morbid. Meet a wide range of fascinating individuals including death workers, artists, New York Times bestselling authors, a practicing witch, Hollywood actors, and a former crematorium worker- all exploring the rituals, stories, and delightfully strange ways humans confront the unknowable. Each episode is curious, insightful, and often striking, revealing the beauty, humor, and meaning we can find in life by confronting death head on. </p> <p>📢Listeners! You are invited to share your own offerings: voice notes on death, dying, ritual and the beauty of finitude. Include your first name and location if you want them shared- you might be featured in an upcoming episode. Send your offering via WhatsApp to <a href="https://wa.me/message/GFWDJDKM26K3F1%20"><strong>+44 2921 690468</strong></a>.</p> <p>💀 Memento Morbid is produced by Overcoat Media in partnership with Morbid Anatomy.</p> <p>Host: Joanna Ebenstein<br> Series Producer: Jess Gunasekara<br> Studio Engineer: Fernando Velazco Vargas<br> Additional Production and Sound Design: Katie Hill<br> Production Coordinator: Janice Jardine<br> Executive Producer: Steven Rajam<br> Artwork: Lauren Seeley</p> </div>
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4/15/2026
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Recent Episodes
May 28, 2026
6: ‘I've never not known death’ - John Troyer
Death scholar John Troyer shares with host Joanna Ebenstein how a lifetime studying mortality intersects with personal grief, offering insights into funeral culture and living fully.
May 21, 2026
5: ‘Darkness is Healthy and Holy’ - Pam Grossman
Writer Pam Grossman and host Joanna Ebenstein explore how embracing darkness and creativity as magic enriches our lives and spiritual practices.
May 14, 2026
4: ‘Death isn’t a problem to fix’ - Oliver Burkeman
<div> <p><strong>What does it mean to live well, knowing our time is finite?<br></strong><br>Author Oliver Burkeman joins Joanna Ebenstein for a conversation about time, mortality, and what it means to live well inside finite lives.</p><p>Best known for Four Thousand Weeks, Burkeman reflects on his shift from scepticism about self-help and productivity culture to a deeper engagement with anxiety, limitation, and acceptance. Together, they explore why the drive to “do everything” so often leaves us more overwhelmed—and what changes when we stop treating finitude as a problem to solve.</p><p>The conversation moves through Stoicism, Zen Buddhism, medieval imagery of death, Silicon Valley’s quest for immortality, and the enduring mystery of consciousness. Burkeman speaks openly about fear—of loss, impermanence, and non-existence—while Joanna reflects on how death contemplation can reshape a life’s trajectory and our ideas of what is important.</p><p>At the centre of the episode is a shared idea: meaning doesn’t arise in spite of limits, but because of them. Death, rather than diminishing life, provides it with meaning, poignancy, and value.</p><p>Together, they ask what becomes possible when we stop trying to outrun time—and start living within it.</p><p>📢Listeners! You are invited to share your own offerings: voice notes on death, dying, ritual and the beauty of finitude. Include your first name and location if you want them shared- you might be featured in an upcoming episode. Send your offering via WhatsApp to <a href="https://wa.me/message/GFWDJDKM26K3F1">+44 2921 690468</a></p><p>💀 Memento Morbid is produced by Overcoat Media in partnership with Morbid Anatomy.</p><p>Host: Joanna Ebenstein<br>Series Producer: Jess Gunasekara<br>Studio Engineer: Fernando Velazco Vargas<br>Additional Production and Sound Design: Katie Hill<br>Executive Producer: Steven Rajam<br>Artwork: Lauren Seeley</p><p><a href="https://substack.com/@mementomorbid">substack.com/@mementomorbid</a></p></div>
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- What is Memento Morbid?
<div> <p>Fascinating, poignant, and surprisingly life-affirming conversations about death, the human condition, and life’s great mysteries.<br> <br> Join <strong>Joanna Ebenstein</strong>, founder of Morbid Anatomy, for Memento Morbid, a series of surprisingly life-affirming conversations around topics that tend to be deemed morbid. Meet a wide range of fascinating individuals including death workers, artists, New York Times bestselling authors, a practicing witch, Hollywood actors, and a former crematorium worker- all exploring the rituals, stories, and delightfully strange ways humans confront the unknowable. Each episode is curious, insightful, and often striking, revealing the beauty, humor, and meaning we can find in life by confronting death head on. </p> <p>📢Listeners! You are invited to share your own offerings: voice notes on death, dying, ritual and the beauty of finitude. Include your first name and location if you want them shared- you might be featured in an upcoming episode. Send your offering via WhatsApp to <a href="https://wa.me/message/GFWDJDKM26K3F1%20"><strong>+44 2921 690468</strong></a>.</p> <p>💀 Memento Morbid is produced by Overcoat Media in partnership with Morbid Anatomy.</p> <p>Host: Joanna Ebenstein<br> Series Producer: Jess Gunasekara<br> Studio Engineer: Fernando Velazco Vargas<br> Additional Production and Sound Design: Katie Hill<br> Production Coordinator: Janice Jardine<br> Executive Producer: Steven Rajam<br> Artwork: Lauren Seeley</p> </div> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
This podcast updates daily.
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Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.
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