Welcome to The Treat. I'm Elvis Mitchell.

Womi Masaku has just won the BAFTA Award for her performance in the film Sinners.

And for that performance, she's also been nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

For The Treat, she offers her feelings about a book whose subject, death, gave her a new way to look at her own life.

I'm Womi Masaku. This is the treat.

A book that really inspired me over the last year was a book called Briefly Perfectly Human.

It's an autobiography by Elua Arthur. She's a death douler and it's about her journey into

figuring out her purpose as a death doler.

And then the lessons she's learned from guiding people through their transition.

It's just something that I have always held on to since reading that book is like

she talks about the Bill Withers song.

Like she says, I want to be used up, but on my deathbed.

With no regrets, like I want to have lived as fully and as joyfully

and as purpose-driven as possible

and also to meditate on death,

to really remember that tomorrow is not guaranteed.

And if we really truly think like that, then all these small, small grudges and the things that kind of give you such a headache and like play on your mind and your heart and your spirit and keep you up at night.

Actually, would they if you remembered that tomorrow you may not draw breath?

That's something that I really find inspiring because I think modern life definitely tries to distract you from the fact that we aren't guaranteed tomorrow. And we are dying. We all are. And so it is inevitable. And this life is so precious. So that's something I really try to remember is that, yeah, I want to be used up and have zero regrets

and let go of all the dumb stuff about dishwashers and like, I don't know, broken luggage and air conditioning.

Yeah.

Best supporting actress Oscar nominee for sinners, Womi Masaku, on the book, Briefly, Perfectly, Human,

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