When it comes to the topic of death, talk is like a powerful antidote. If we don't talk about death, it tends to take on this mystic power, and we enable it with avoidance. Fear is a powerful motivator. And we give that fear extra power by lying to ourselves. Our society has mastered this actually. "It's morbid to talk about death" - sound familiar?
But a death renaissance is happening. And I'm all for it. Death still scares the living daylight out of me (see what I did there?), but the more I write, talk, and present on this topic, the more I realize that I am taking a bit of its power away.
This is an article from 2017, but still so relevant: https://undark.org/article/death-dying-america-anthropologist/
No matter what your profession, no matter what your stockholders, death has a 100% certainty to affect you in your workplace. Talking about it won't even the odds, but do it anyway.
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