Episode 7 · ~24 min

Turtles of the Eclipse

Caitlin Doughty

Setting

Clancy, feeling falsely enlightened, meets Death. The death-industrial complex. Embalming’s Civil War origins. Home funerals.

Transmission

Death is not the problem. Our industrialized, profit-driven relationship to death — and our refusal to look — is what creates so much unnecessary suffering. False enlightenment is just ego in better clothes.

Death is not the problem. Our industrialized relationship to death — and our refusal to look at it — is.

For the walk

• A regenerative homestead already practices the cycle. How might death be welcomed as part of the same tending?
• Where does an industry profit from your disconnection, and what would looking cost?