Death Can Make You Happy

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In the final episode of Oliver Burkeman’s series The Power of Negative Thinking, it is finally time to confront what many of us see as the most negative of all experiences: death. Could there really be a path to happiness through thinking more about our own, and our loved ones’, mortality? Oliver will speak to a death ‘doula’, and ask what lessons we can learn about living from those who are near-to-death. He’ll also explore the modern-day rediscovery of “memento mori”, constant reminders of death in daily life. In deliberately confronting death, can life take on a new and vivid sense of meaning?