Welcome to the Magical Overthinkers podcast, a show for thought spiralers, exploring the subjects

we can't stop overthinking about, from burnout to imposter syndrome. If you can relate to the feeling

that despite living in the information age,

the world only seems to be making less sense,

if you can connect to the idea that for some mysterious reason,

it just feels especially hard to exist as a human in the world right now,

then you're in the right place.

This podcast is here to help us think less about the things that

don't matter and more about the things that do. I'm your host, Amanda Montel. Today, as a special

Halloween episode, we're overthinking about death, specifically death in the digital age

through the eyes of today's very special guest,

writer and author of the memoir, Grief is for People, Sloan Crosley.

Whew, death. It's a big topic today. I personally have been fascinated with death since I was a little kid.

This is macabre, but I actually remember drafting my first, last will, and testament at the age of 15.

I remember one day I retrieved some yellow construction paper and pink magic markers,

sat down, and wrote a list that delineated less how I'd like my assets to be distributed.

I didn't have much to my name at that point.

And more what I wanted people to do with my ashes, how I wanted to be celebrated.

I suppose it felt like the last opportunity to throw a real shindig, to assert my personality

in the world.

And there was some gallows humor in the exercise for sure.

But I also think it was a very sincere attempt to familiarize myself with death, to make

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