A Sweet Conversation About Dying with Death Doula Alua Arthur

A Bit of Optimism

The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek

Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Death is a word we like to avoid. We dance around the subject or use vague euphemisms to not hurt anybody. But what if being open about our deaths meant we could live happier lives?

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0:00.0	What is the most interesting secret or story you've ever heard somebody tell you on their deathbed?
0:04.5	I've heard so many secrets.
0:06.5	Oh, tell one.
0:07.4	What's your favorite?
0:08.0	Come on, come on.
0:09.7	About the kids, about mistresses.
0:12.1	Yeah.
0:12.2	Other families.
0:13.1	Other families.
0:14.0	There's so many other families.
0:15.9	So many other families.
0:18.1	And I think the 23 and me and Ancestry.com and all those places, we're about to find a
0:22.2	whole lot of our families. That's right. It's all coming out. Yeah. Nobody's dying with secrets
0:26.7	anymore. Let's talk about death. Dying. Being dead. Those words are so jarring, literally just hearing them make many of a squirm.
0:40.3	It's such a morbid conversation. Who wants to have it? Or maybe we're thinking about it the wrong way.
0:46.3	That's where a Lua Arthur comes in. She's flipping the script.
0:50.3	She's a New York Times best-selling author and one of the leading death doulas.
0:54.9	Like a doula helps some people prepare for birth, death dolas help other people navigate life's final chapter, with clarity and grace.
1:04.2	But for those of us who aren't currently in the process of dying and aren't navigating grief, thinking about death may actually be the best hack to focus
1:14.8	on life. This is a bit of optimism. So I'm always fascinated by people's career paths, right?
1:28.2	Doctors and lawyers tend to know pretty young that they're going to be a doctor and lawyer
1:31.4	because you have to make a decision, you know, pretty young to start going through that amount
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