00:00Ooh, Dunkaroo.
00:01We have family that's buried in the cemetery here,
00:05like generations of...
00:06Yeah, our neighbors.
00:08They're all dead.
00:09Oh, there's Dunkaroo.
00:13Yeah, tastes like suppressed childhood trauma.
00:16Yeah, really good.
00:26Okay.
00:29All these, like, dark thoughts about mortality.
00:33Is this where we go?
00:34Is this, this is it?
00:35Death is inevitable, so how do we get better at this?
00:38When people die, like, the big, it feels big, right?
00:41And it feels huge, but life just keeps going.
00:43When society is expecting you to grieve in one way,
00:47and that is not your natural grieving way.
00:49There are different types of grievers.
00:52When someone gives me the space to cry or says it's okay,
00:56I cry at the idea of them letting me cry,
01:00and then I start crying.
01:01How does death literacy help people like myself
01:05navigate mortality and things
01:07that we just absolutely struggle and avoid?
01:10Well, this is one of the family plots.
01:13And the weirdest part about that line
01:15is that my parents do love me enough.
01:18Death doula comes in,
01:20and one of the best things that we can do
01:22is just normalize death.
01:24Film is integral in helping death literacy.
01:28This film that we just saw,
01:29children are exposed to death.
01:32They're kissing a body in a coffin.
01:34It's pretty shocking.
01:35This is not a show about how it's funny that we die.
01:38To me, it's like,
01:39how I responded to the death was funny.
01:42One thing that no one tells you about
01:43when you lose people
01:44is you can absolutely rank them.
01:47We're starting with morbid curiosity to loosen it up.
01:50It's more of a game,
01:52but it is around the subject of death.
01:53Here's a glass of wine for this one.
01:56Our family didn't really have that space.
01:59They white-knuckle their way through their grief.
02:01That's not helping anybody.
02:01No, no.
02:02That's not helping anybody.
02:03No.
02:03Yeah, no, I was extremely nervous.
02:05Yeah.
02:05And I was wildly, wildly uncomfortable.
02:11The experience of grief can be funny.
02:14I'm an advocate of death literacy.
02:17How do you speak to kids about death
02:18at a developmentally appropriate stage?
02:21Talk to people about the things
02:23that you're not comfortable with.
02:26Like, literally,
02:26I haven't been here since the burial.
02:28And, um,
02:30because our family is just, like, in denial.
02:33Well, I guess this is where we hug it out, so...
02:35I don't want to...
02:36Five, six, seven, eight.
02:37There we go, hand out.
02:38Yeah.
02:39And scene.
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