None of It Matters, Just Don't Be a D*ck with Beth McMillan from Seeing Death Clearly

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None of It Matters, Just Don't Be a D*ck with Beth McMillan

50 minutes Posted Mar 27, 2023 at 12:00 am.

In the Philadelphia suburbs now, but I grew up in North Carolina.

Growing up, Beth was very much a nihilist.

This is what you could do with your body after you died, could have their skull just sitting on my mantle.

In Judaism, the body is like treated with the utmost respect.

Black Death history lesson

Green burial sites in New Jersey.

Time of chaos that we are in now.

We've never processed all of that trauma from all of that other stuff that's led us here, we're all just this product of like generational trauma.

Growing up Jewish in SC

Teenage youth group, dramatic reinterpretation of the Holocost.

Are humans going to destroy ourselves?

Our kids' generation are already think and do things differently.

This is why everybody's afraid to die.

Reckless youth.

Beth was without too much immediate experience with death.

Animals dying, how animals consciousness of death do animals have like ants, moose, dolphins, and whales?

he overthinking about death and the anxiety that we have about it, the not facing it, all of those things lead us to suffering more around death and dying that we really have to.

We have our own learned behavior.

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Welcome back to Seeing Death Clearly. I'm your host, Jill McClennen, a death doula and end-of-life coach.

In this episode, I talk with my friend Beth McMillian.

Beth McMillan is the forever winner of “2 Truths and A Lie”. She loves her boring job at the coolest place on earth and belongs to one cat. She has 2 kids, a mortgage, and is a Real AdultⓇ about 42% of the time.

Seeing Death Clearly is a show that challenges you to think about your beliefs about death, dying, grief, and living life.

Today’s episode covers a lot of ground over all of those topics including do animals have an awareness of death as humans do.

Beth shares with us what it was like growing up Jewish in the South.

Trigger warning that there is a bit of cursing in this episode, as well as a story of going through a reenactment of the Holocaust when Beth was in a teenage youth group.

You can go to the timestamps to skip that part if you would like.

Beth talks about two of her favorite books, here are the links to the books.

https://www.amazon.com/Stiff-Curious-Lives-Human-Cadavers/dp/0393324826

https://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Gets-Your-Eyes-Crematory/dp/0393351904

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