This is the longest shortest time from WNYC. I'm Hillary Frank. Welcome to everyone who

found our show through our last episode should I be a parent. The feedback we've been hearing

from you has been just tremendous and I know that many of you are still no closer today

to figuring out whether or not you want kids than you were a couple weeks ago. We hope

that listening to our show and talking with people through our blog and Facebook groups

will help get you closer to your decision. Now whether you're on the fence or not,

here's something about parenthood that I know to be true. Kids ask crazy questions. The

questions can be hilarious, they can be invasive, they can give you the creeps, but no matter

what, they just don't stop. My kids questions for the last year or so have focused pretty

much on one thing. Death. Most kids go through a death phase, even the happiest ones. So I thought

I'd call up someone who could actually answer their questions. Hi, Hillary. How are you?

Service and excited, totally normal things. This is Sarah Troop. She's the executive director of a

group called the Order of the Good Death. Their members are morticians and funeral directors and

also academics and artists who deal with death in their work. Their mission is to normalize death

for the rest of us. You may know their great video series, Ask a Mortician. Sarah is the person

who research answers for those videos. She also has her own blog about death rituals and food. It's

called nourishing death. Plus she's taking classes on forensic science, just for fun. Today we are so

lucky to have Sarah Troop with us to answer your kids questions about death. She is an expert on

this topic. And for the purposes of our show, she has an added superpower. For over a decade,

she taught preschool in kindergarten, which of course is the age when death questions begin. Stay

with us. So we took some questions from our audience and I'm going to play some of them for you.

Okay. So let's listen to the first clip. What's your name?

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