Mortality Minded explores life, death, and whatever's next through culture, science, personal growth, and more to shed light on this universal yet deeply personal subject. Hosted by Thomas Gaudio, whose endless mortal curiosity as a writer, journalist, and student of thanatology—the interdisciplinary study of the end of life—has led him here.
Mortality Minded
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Mortality Minded explores life, death, and whatever's next through culture, science, personal growth, and more to shed light on this universal yet deeply personal subject. Hosted by Thomas Gaudio, whose endless mortal curiosity as a writer, journalist, and student of thanatology—the interdisciplinary study of the end of life—has led him here.
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February 8, 2021
Philosophy of death 101: Introduction
What can philosophy teach us about death? Since you could say the goal of philosophy is to help us think and communicate clearly and critically about fundamental aspects of nature and humanity, the answer seems to be—a whole lot. That’s why I’ve decided to take this philosophy of death class, offered by Yale University through its free Open Yale Courses program, and turn my education into podcast episodes we can all learn from. In this introduction episode, I break down how it will work, and we get a front row seat to lecture one in the series taught by Yale philosophy professor Shelly Kagan. The series is made up of 26 lectures, each of which will get its own episode. This is an experiment so I don’t know how it will turn out. But I’m excited to take this journey with you and see where it takes us. Ready, future philosophers? Death: Lecture one (Open Yale Courses) Death: About/Syllabus/Sessions/Survey/Buy Books (Open Yale Courses) Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license Connect Enjoying Mortality Minded? Please take a minute to share this episode, rate the podcast, or leave a comment. It would be helpful and much appreciated as I continue working to turn my vision into reality. You can join me in exploring mortality and everything that follows from it by subscribing to Mortality Minded wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes and other content are also available on Mortality Minded. If social media's your thing, I’m @MortalityMinded on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Or if you prefer to kick it old school, email me at connect@mortalityminded.com Thanks for listening. Until next time, stay mortality minded. (Music: Brass Beat by Blake © 2011 licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.)
December 16, 2020
Revisiting the first Covid wave with NYC funeral director Caroline Schrank
Back in the Spring, when the first wave of Covid-19 in the U.S. hit New York City like a tsunami, there were so many deaths in a such a short period of time that the normally seamless process of transporting, burying and cremating, and memorializing the dead was upended. Funeral directors, typically poised managers of these end-of-life services, suddenly found themselves scrambling to adapt to a threefold conundrum: 1. How to dispose of the dead amid a logistical logjam 2. How to support the living amid an emotional crisis in which people couldn’t be there in-person for their dying relatives and friends and couldn’t come together in-person to mourn and celebrate them after they died 3. How to keep themselves, their staffs, and their families safe amid widespread shortages of personal protective equipment meant to mitigate the spread of coronarvirus, including from the recently deceased Today’s interview is with Caroline Schrank, a funeral director in New York City who runs Down to Earth Funerals, about what she went through both professionally and personally during those uncertain and overwhelming days. As we approach the end of a year marked by a staggering amount of death, I’m highlighting this work—normally out-of-sight and under-appreciated—because it’s been critical throughout the pandemic, and it deserves greater recognition. You can reach Caroline Schrank at Down To Earth Funerals Sources: here (scroll down once you’re there) Connect Enjoying Mortality Minded? Please take a moment to share this episode, rate the podcast, or leave a comment. It would be helpful and much appreciated as I continue working to turn my vision into reality. You can join me in exploring mortality and everything that follows from it by subscribing to Mortality Minded wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes and other content are also available on Mortality Minded. If social media's your thing, I’m @MortalityMinded on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Or if you prefer to kick it old school, email me at connect@mortalityminded.com Thanks for listening. Until next time, stay mortality minded. (Music: Brass Beat by Blake © 2011 licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.)
December 1, 2020
The deadly roots of Thanksgiving
Whoops, I’m a few days late on this one. Or just think of it as incredibly early for Turkey Day 2021. Either way, this is an entry in my Bucket Nuggets series, which are short episodes about things like a great quote I came across, a fact I find interesting, or maybe just a weird thought I had recently. Bucket as in “kicked the bucket,” a euphemism for death. And nugget as in a small bit of knowledge or wisdom. Not bucket nuggets as in, say, an obscene amount of McDonald’s McNuggets. Speaking of food and death, though. Today I’m taking a brief look at the roots of Thanksgiving—specifically, that most people have it completely wrong, and it was deadly and otherwise brutal for indigenous people in what would become the United States of America, according to David Silverman, a history professor at George Washington University and the author of This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving. Sources: here (scroll down once you're there) Connect Enjoying Mortality Minded? Please take a moment to share this episode, rate the podcast, or leave a comment. It would be helpful and much appreciated as I continue working to turn my vision into reality. You can join me in exploring mortality and everything that follows from it by subscribing to Mortality Minded wherever you get your podcasts. Episodes and other content are also available on Mortality Minded. If social media's your thing, I’m @MortalityMinded on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Or if you prefer to kick it old school, email me at connect@mortalityminded.com Thanks for listening. Until next time, stay mortality minded. (Music: Brass Beat by Blake © 2011 licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.)
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