How to Be Positively Morbid
Unladylike
Unladylike Media
4.8 β’ 3.7K Ratings
ποΈ 30 October 2018
β±οΈ 50 minutes
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Summary
As morticians, funeral directors, taxidermists, and all-around mortality enthusiasts, women of the death-positive movement are out to radically disrupt β and reclaim β our end-of-life culture and care. Order of the Good Death director Sarah Chavez helps Caroline and Cristen sort out what that means, how the male gaze haunts our corpses, and why reclaiming what happens to our bodies when we die just might be the ultimate feminist act.
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| 1:03.0 | What really motivates me to plan my funeral is like, you know what? I can smash the patriarchy |
| 1:12.5 | with my corpse and during my lifetime. Like, that's what's important to me. |
| 1:26.0 | Welcome to One Lady Life, where we find out what happens when women break the rules from |
| 1:39.0 | beyond the grave. I'm Caroline, I'm Kristen, and did you all know the funerary future is female? |
| 1:49.6 | According to the National Association of Funeral Directors, women make up 60% of mortuary |
| 1:55.1 | school students. But whether we're talking about morticians, end of life nurses, even |
| 2:00.3 | taxidermists on Instagram, the way today's guest Sarah Chavez sees it, morbid girls are |
| 2:06.6 | going to save the world because hello, they're not afraid of death. Sarah is one of the directors |
| 2:12.5 | of the Order of the Good Death, where she really evangelizes healthier ways to relate |
| 2:17.8 | to and engage with mortality. Death is such a huge part of our lives. It's one of the |
| 2:25.9 | biggest questions, you know, that we kind of grapple with in our existence. And so to |
| 2:31.5 | not be interested in, I think is kind of morbid myself. |
| 2:36.2 | For years now, Sarah has written, studied, and talked about how are conditioned to process |
| 2:40.9 | death, whether through ceremonial foods, religions, or cultural traditions like the Mexican |
| 2:46.4 | American ones she grew up with. Her blog, Death in the Maiden, also explores the gender |
| 2:51.4 | stereotypes wrapped up in death cultures, like how gender and ghost hunting intersect, and |
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