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Naomi Westerman

Happy Death Club

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Playwright Naomi Westerman was an anthropology grad student studying death rituals around the world when her whole family died, turning death from the academic to the deeply personal. She struggled with grief and talking about, particularly as a young woman, realising while death is everywhere in our culture, grief is harder to find in specialist ways.

This Inkling combines academic study with memoir to discuss the popularity of murder as entertainment in true crime podcasts; women working in the death industry; Naomi's love of horror and what it's like writing horror movies for a living when your mum was maybe murdered; the rise of death peer support groups; and death rituals in other countries. Happy Death Club provides a frank, touching and sometimes hilarious look at death, grief, and bereavement.
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90 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2024
Publication year
2024
Publisher
404 Ink
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  • Sol Ríoshas quoted19 hours ago
    though the Natural Death Centre warns that a human corpse buried in the garden can reduce the value of your property by ‘between 20 percent and 50 percent.’5
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    Broadly, our choices in the modern era come down to burial or cremation.
  • Sol Ríoshas quoted19 hours ago
    Every day, more than 160,000 people die. The World Population Review puts this figure at a weirdly precise 166,859 people every day. More than 60.9 million per year.

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